Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Daniel Pratt dined at the Episcopal Theological School Monday evening. He spoke after dinner on "Language" amidst great applause...
...experience, disagreed with him. Mr. Moeran admitted that the American rule of not tackling a man below the waist was an excellent one, but he did not like to see the ball kicked backward. The Americans thought the latter move was a good part of the game. Mr. Manning spoke of a proposed rule that had found favor to oblige the half-backs who received the ball to stand at a certain distance so as to prevent block games. The British committee concurred in this. - [New York Times...
Bonfanti, who was black-haired, voluptuously pretty, and had eyes that almost spoke, fell in love, just when her success was greatest, with the petted scion of an aristocratic family - a young man with plenty of money and a social position that might well be envied. But he gave up all this for love of the Italian girl, and, despite the entreaties of his family and the certainty of social ostracism, married her, and took her from the stage...
President Barnard of Columbia lately spoke in disparaging terms of the proposed school at Athens. This moves the Times to ire and irony. It says: "Why should our young men go to Athens to study Greek? Is not American Greek good enough for Americans? The American system produces Hellenists like the Yale professors of Greek, who, going down to the Peiraens one day to make a bargain with a native waterman for a sail-boat to take him across the harbor, astonished the man by asking him for a 'transport-boat,' - something that would carry half a dozen regiments...
...Frederick J. De Peyster, in a speech before the trustees of Columbia College, spoke as follows of the proposed school at Athens: "Dr. W. W. Goodwin of Harvard University, whom I consider the first Hellenic scholar in America, will assume the direction of the school. Under one of the broad rules which govern his college, professors are allowed, at proper periods, a two-years' vacation, and during their absence one-half of their salary is continued. The Archaeological Institute has raised the necessary sum to make up the amount required by Dr. Goodwin, and the school will therefore be inaugurated...