Word: speake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...night, however, various considerations have suggested themselves to me which made me regret my vote. I should be sorry to have to carry such a transparency myself in the procession, and sorry to have it carried in the class. Will you allow me the use of your columns to speak my mind in the matter...
...dislike to say anything in regard to the referee, but we feel sure that we speak for the majority when we say that his duties were hardly discharged as they should have been. However, that does not explain our defeat. Our opponents played much better than was expected and our team played much worse than we had been led to expect. We hope the members of the team will not feel discouraged at the result of their first important match, but will continue their practice with steady perseverance which will in time overcome their faults...
Carl Shurtz will not speak in Faneuil Hall, but only at the Tremont Temple and to the Germans at the South end. It is earnestly hoped, however, that the Cleveland men of the college will turn out and escort him from Tremont Temple to the Southend...
...brought face to face with the Andover and Exeter elevens later in the fall, will read with interest a few facts on the relative merits of those teams as given in the Exonian. It says: "We have no grounds upon which to assume any superiority, and cannot, therefore, speak too encouragingly of victory this fall. Andover is trying, with every possible effort, to perfect the deficiencies of their team by constant training and practice. They are said to spend habitually from two to three hours each day at labor with the leather, and, although they fail to meet the average...
...Institute of Technology had decided to parade in their ranks." But, says the writer, ingenuously, the Technology does not propose to parade in their ranks, consequently, can Harvard, "in respect to itself, turn out with a party that takes such shady methods"-that tells a naughty lie, to speak boldly, "to secure our presence in its ranks?" Well, we hardly know. If the simple facts were considered we are very sure the Independents would not desire in their ranks anyone who could adopt so shady a method of argument as the writer has done, for the letter stated that...