Word: talk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Much talk has been going the rounds lately about the various athletic clubs sending teams to England next year. We know of nothing authoritative, but the talk is that the Manhattan Athletic Club will send Myers, Waldron, Fredricks, and Lambrecht. The Williamsburg Athletic Club, Delaney and Murray. The New York Athletic Club, Baxter, Ford, and Queckberner...
...difficulties of the superintendent in this respect have been increased by injudicious expressions on the part of members to friends and out siders, parading the advantages of the society, and the cheapness with which it supplies its members as compared with the higher charges of the retail dealers. Talk of this kind is to be regretted. It strengthens the impression that the society means to carry on a general competition with the retailers, and makes the friends and business acquaintances of the latter look unfavorably at the society. In this way it increases the difficulties of the superintendent in obtaining...
...surprised to see Progress retailing such silly talk as the following : "There is a street-car conductor in Chicago who is a college graduate, and can also converse in all the modern languages. He might, you know, be a college graduate and still be ignorant of French, German, etc. This conductor (and he is not, it would be safe to wager, the only one of his kind in the country) does not agree that his education has been of important service to him in his struggle for existence. When in need it did not secure for him a better place...
...devoted to the chapel service, but they seem to be entirely forgetful of their neighbors. It is exceedingly disagreeable for a man who wishes to pay attention to the service, to hear two men keep up an incessant whispering and laughing; and it is even more disagreeable when they talk loud enough for him to hear what they say. If a man has no feelings of his own to keep him from acting in this way in chapel, he ought at least to respect the feelings of those around him; and we hope that in the future those...
...happiness and diffusing it. The man who knows these things, and who has his will so subdued in the learning of them that he is ready to do what he knows he ought, is an educated man; and the man who knows them not is uneducated, though he could talk all the tongues of Babel...