Word: speak
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...another Brevity we speak of the services held during Lent. We wish to say that students are allowed to attend St. John's, not only in Lent, but also at any other time that they desire...
...spring revival in athletics. The so-called "Winter Meetings" give a fresh zest and interest to Gymnasium athletics, and the near prospect of work on the river and field arouses a new activity among the candidates for the University and class teams. This seems, therefore, a proper time to speak of one or two things which seem worthy of notice. In the first place, there is an unaccountable lack of interest in wrestling. We would venture to assert that there is no other college in the country which boasts of an athletic association that cannot show better wrestling than...
...wish has fortunately been gratified in many instances; and I think I may truthfully say that no man living is more intimately acquainted with the doings and sayings of the famous literary people of the age than I am. And since the Quizzical Club has kindly invited me to speak to them to-night on the subject of Tennyson, having ascertained that the great poet is at the Isle of Wight for the season, and not likely to return before his anger has had time to cool, I will endeavor, to the best of my ability, to disclose...
...have before had occasion to speak of the want of consideration shown by certain instructors in keeping their sections after the hour. In some cases the evil still continues. It is, we understand, a regular practice of one of the instructors in Greek not to let his men out until four or even five minutes after the proper time...
...tried to move, and could not; he tried to speak, and could not. He felt himself turning to marble as he stood there...