Word: speak
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...surprised that we speak in this way, for some have sought to turn over the leaves of this book in the style of the blase dilettante and brand it forever with such meaningless phrase as we have before mentioned. A careful student, however, of the work, and one who is willing to see its beauties as well as to underscore its faults, will recognize in the first poem, "Exeter," many passages that are excellent and far above the average of undergraduate effusions...
Michael Davitt, the Irish agitator, arrived in New York last evening. He is expected to speak in Boston tomorrow evening...
...doubtless command a good salary, if their college press is able to help him out." For real imbecility of language and sentiment we must commend this last sentence to students of English literature, while all readers will recognize the beauty of the motives that urge men to speak so politely of a gentleman who, for good and apparent reasons, declined to enter their service...
...reputation of the lecturer is of the highest, and gives assurance of a most interesting discussion of the subject selected, "The Iniquity of a Protective Tariff." The lecturer will in particular discuss the harm of the tariff on our shipping, a subject on which Captain Codman is qualified to speak, by many years experience as a sea captain...
...following have been selected to speak for the Boylston prizes tomorrow evening: Seniors-Copeland, Eaton, Firman, Hardon, Hoar, Pendleton, Van Benthuysen. Juniors-Cummings, Cushing, Heilbron, Holmes, Hubbard, A. M. Lord, G. H. Page, H. Putnam and O. Putnam...