Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...than ever before will be taken in any class work, and an undue proportion of "lives" must inevitably be lost. The plan suggested by our correspondent of having a class-book edited by the Secretary and not by the class at large would have worked much more satisfactorily. We speak, however, from our fears and not at all from our hopes. It is extremely desirable that a class should have a full and complete book, and we wish Seventy-Seven might have such a one. Indeed, we consider, now that the class authorities have decided to retain the old system...
...spite, however, of all its drawbacks, the photographic art gives a deal of pleasure to man-kind. Not to speak of the character-study presented by every album, we can gratify ourselves with the sight of distant friends without the intervention of spirits; and in their "photos" they present themselves in a constant state of imperturbable good-nature and equanimity...
...fellow-student we are all aware. Harvard College has placed on its governing board two of the gentlemen mentioned, and has bestowed upon them other marks of honor. Of the influence Mr. Emerson and Mr. Adams have on the thought and opinion of Harvard students it is unnecessary to speak. The charge that Mr. Sumner was impolitely treated at a dinner in Cambridge was sufficiently disproved a year ago in the Advertiser. Phillips Brooks has more Harvard students in his congregation than any other preacher in Boston or Cambridge. It may fairly be doubted whether, in regard to Mr. Phillips...
...spirits, to gather together and vote that the subject is worth investigation. This is particularly noticeable in college. Independent action is altogether out of fashion, while organizations exist for the furtherance of almost every-object that the mind of man can devise. And of these organizations I mean to speak...
...will excuse me for being so horribly methodical, I will divide them into four classes, of each of which I will speak separately. The first consists of societies which have some serious object in view, which may be roughly described as the pursuit of Cape Flyaway; the second of open societies, which are devoted to amusement; the third of clubs proper, where you can get wine and cigars and gossip of the most correct sort at the cheapest price; and the fourth of secret societies, of which the objects are unknown and the names are forbidden words...