Word: speak
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...star-route trial yesterday the defence again offered to submit their case to the jury without argument, but the government council declined, and Mr. Bliss proceeded to speak for the prosecution...
...bound them to it in vital bonds of affection, they will be very much given to holding themselves out to attract frequent reading. That is, they will report the college often, attractively and thoroughly. If the college has sent out worthy sons to speak of it, its reputation is safe and its fame certain...
...Philadelphia and New York papers all speak in complimentary terms of the recent performances of "Conrad and Medora" in the above-mentioned cities during the recess. The play, says the Times, is a travesty on Byron's "Corsair." "Folanthe," "The Pirates of Penzance," "Horrors," "Baba," "The Babes in the Wood." "Evangeline," the Brooklyn bridge, the proposed new aqueduct, the legislature of New York, the great and only combined Barnum and London shows, George Francis Train and "Julius Caesar." The cast included...
...curriculum work. Ilitherto those appointed for rank have always appeared on the commencement stage, but by the new laws of the college (in effect this year for the first time) the number of speakers is limited. They are chosen as at Harvard. The names of those who do not speak appear on the commencement programmes as at Harvard...
...drugs. He does not believe that any stimulus is of advantage to a healthy student, unless now and then, socially, in the intervals of mental labor. "I have never smoked," Matthew Arnold writes, "and have always drunk wine - chiefly claret. As to the use of wine, I can only speak for myself. Of course, there is the danger of excess; but a healthy nature and the power of self-control being pre-supposed, one can hardly do better, I should think, than 'follow nature' as to what one drinks and its times and quantity. I suppose most young people could...