Word: speake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Jessup has declined the Persian mission to which he was recently appointed and confirmed, because he cannot speak the Persian language...
There will be a memorial service in honor of the late President Walker at the Walker Memorial Church in Charlestown Sunday Jan. 14, at 10.30 o'clock. President Eliot will speak, and music will be furnished by the chapel choir, assisted by members of the Glee Club...
Professor F. L. O. Rhoerig, dean of the College of Asiatic Languages at Cornell University, is said to speak fluently more languages than any other person in the world. Several official papers recently received by the State department at Washington, in languages that no one there understood, have been sent to him to translate, which he has done without difficulty. It is reported that his familiarity with the Persian tongue, as well as with nearly all the important languages of Asia and Europe, has caused his appointment as charge d'affaires in Persia to be strongly recommended and favorably considered...
...from such relaxation, I have heard of nothing of the sort. I do not at all agree with what Chancellor Crosby said upon this subject in an address, or lecture, the other evening. It is a matter upon which I am hardly inclined to believe him hardly competent to speak, for he lacks experience. So far as I am aware, the University of New York has done nothing in the way of athletic sports and instead of speaking from experience, as we are qualified to do, he merely advances his hypothesis, based upon an imagined condition of facts. We have...
...that the board of last month was only $4.25, certainly does not redound to the steward's credit. Nevertheless, there is nothing in it to cause any serious mistrust of the management of the hall in general. The association is certainly fulfilling the purposes of its establishment, and, to speak relatively, giving general satisfaction as far as relates to quality and price, in spite of this revelation. A natural result of this unfortunate mistake is very likely to be renewed agitation of the entire subject - agitation that, as usual, probably will result in no good, but will, on the contrary...