Word: speake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long and earnestly. A plan of proceeding was hit upon and agreed to by all present. After careful investigation, we are able to divulge its details to the public. Although we are well aware of the risk we run by so doing, we feel that duty compels us to speak, at whatever cost. The plan, which, in wicked ingenuity and craftiness, excells the most diabolical counsels of a Machiavelli, is briefly this : The dissenting faction unanimously agree to enter upon a prolonged strike - not, however, immediately, by no means, no, but - here is the point - not until after the Christmas...
...just before commencement, at which time those who have received highest honors will be given orations, honors will receive dissertations, and under certain conditions honorable mention disquisitions. As many of these write parts as choose, and they are then delivered before a committee, who select five or six to speak on commencement...
...this is not the first occasion on which Harvard College has been creditably identified with a general observation of the transit of Venus. On the occasion of the transit of 1874 the phenomenon was not visible here, but in respect to the previous transit in 1769, and so to speak, its companion of 1761, Harvard has an honorable record. The college had no observatory then and but a meagre supply of instruments, but what were at command did good service. There was no observatory in this country at that time nor for a long while afterward, and that Harvard College...
...recurrence of such a disgraceful exhibition as was witnessed on the twenty-fifth of last month. That Yale has the misfortune of being partially represented by a paper so vengeful and vindictive as the News is very unfortunate; that the News itself seems either unable or unwilling to speak temperately and fairly, we sincerely regret. Nevertheless it will, we hope, be Harvard's effort and pride to act towards Yale in all things with moderation and with courtesy. That she does not receive like treatment in return cannot change her determination...
...young men is that you have nothing to say. (And the same, I regret to add, is true of young women.') - 'I have seen letters written by graduates of Harvard College that would disgrace a boy of ten. (Of graduates of the Annex I am not yet prepared to speak.) Whatever the liberally educated man (or woman) should or should not know, no argument is needed to show that he (or she) should be able to write good English.' Professor Hill has that first quality of a good teacher, the power of holding a startled attention. His keen-edged sentences...