Word: speak
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year has been characterized by industry and a true desire to make the best of their opportunities. The school will be a great aid to scholars from America, who may in future visit Greece, and its work will not be limited to that done within its walls, so to speak. Its library now contains a complete set of the Greek classics and a large number of works of reference for the study of archaeology and philology in Athens. The number of volumes is constantly increasing from donations made by friends, chief among whom has been our minister, Mr. Eugene Schuyler...
...Harvard Historical Society will meet Thursday. Nov. 22. at 7.30 P. M, in 40 Matthews Hall. Mr. J. C. Ropes, of Boston, will speak on the authorities for the year's study : "The Campaigns of the Civil War." All members are earnestly requested to attend the meeting...
...they did not make a good breakfast, he suspected them of an undue devotion to cigars and ardent spirits. This was rather a rough and ready way of arriving at an estimate, but perhaps he was not far wrong in the result. In this connection I may speak of another college dignitary who used to invite the men to breakfast. He only invited one at a time, and the breakfast invariably consisted of an egg and a chop. "Now, Mr. Jones," he would say, "suppose you take the egg and I'll take the chop ; or do you take...
...John, of Kansas, Col. Bain, of Kentucky, and Hon. John B. Finch, of Nebraska, the three foremost temperance speakers of today, are now stumping Massachuusetts in favor of "no license." An effort is making to have them speak in Sanders Theatre at some early date. If successful it will be a rare treat for the college and for Cambridge people. Mr. Finch is the most polished orator and closest platform reasoner of all the speakers now engaged in the temperance work, and will compare favorably with any elocutionist in the land. It is reported that a gentleman of influence...
...results, it seems hardly worth while to refer to the subject again. But at the risk of growing monotonous, we again wish to call the attention of the college and of its friends to the subject of a swimming-bath. We will not dilate on its advantages. They speak for themselves. However, while the college is so occupied with the subject of morning prayers, we do not expect them to trouble themselves about such trivial matters as fire escapes, swimming-baths, lights in the entries at night, and other subjects which have to do merely with our temporal safety...