Word: talk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that this unfortunate state of affairs no longer exists, and in all probability will never reappear. Both faculty and instructors have vied with each other in giving all the aid possible, both to new and old students. The instructors for their part, have kindly volunteered to see and talk with any of the men and give them the benefit of their experience and advice, while some few have, in one or two brief sentences, described to their division the various electives under their particular branch of learning, and showed the purpose and advantage of courses which a careless man might...
...Wendell recently gave a talk on the above subject, which was so interesting that we venture to publish an account made up from notes taken at the time...
...regret that so few students were able to attend the talk on English reading, which the instructor in junior themes recently gave. There is undoubtedly a need of a few lectures on the subject of English reading, similar or supplementary to those given by Prof. Hill; and we feel sure the small attendance at this lecture must have been caused by ignorance or negligence on the part of the students. The lecturer intended to give a few informal talks or lectures on the importance of forming a taste for English reading, and the best method to be pursued in acquiring...
...They talk of a surpliced choir for college chapel at Trinity...
...club is perhaps the throne of human felicity." And I know of no club where such a throne is more likely to be found than the University. It must always have especial attractions as the common meeting-ground of classmates and old college friends who will have much to talk of, besides "shop." There, the lawyer will gladly forget his clients, and the doctor his patients, and the man of business in discussing the "fizzles," "flunks" and "rusghes" of bygone days will cease to think of cotton, grain and stocks...