Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...scene came at last, and, scarce daring to speak...
...preliminary trial at which the twenty men who are to speak for the Boylston Prizes will be selected, takes places to-morrow, at 9 A. M. Candidates will speak in alphabetical order, Seniors coming first...
SENIOR.[The writer of this letter has made a mistake in the use of the word "current." If he will turn to Worcester's Dictionary he will find that "current" means "now actually passing," and consequently it is incorrect when writing in April to speak of the "current month of February." His petition to the Directors reads as follows: "A claim of mine, made in the current month, for deduction on account of absence from February 14 to February 24, is disallowed, etc." The Directors naturally supposed that he had not handed in his petition until April, and so very...
...this direction, but as a means of facilitating trade with China, that the study of Chinese will be most useful to Americans As was shown by Mr. Atkinson in his last lecture before the Finance Club, China offers rare opportunities to an American who can speak the language. We hope that the efforts which are now being made under the encouragement of members of our Faculty will result in the trial of a Chinese teachership at Harvard...
...receivers of scholarships that I speak. I have no sympathy to waste on any one of those who considers the aid given him an alms, or its acceptance a humiliation. The President's words on this subject were well chosen and directly to the point. My purpose is rather to deny that money given in scholarships is in any sense a charity, and to denounce in the strongest terms any attempt by undergraduate or outsider to arouse or increase that notion. It is a false one, wholly unworthy of the men who advance it. For what was the purpose...