Word: talk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Jennie June" is to give the girls at Lasell Seminary, Auburndale, a talk on "Sensible School Dress," exhibiting models of her own and others' designing, some from abroad...
...Harvard's loss of "popularity" the Boston Herald says: There is a great deal of idle talk about some supposed loss of popularity which is to accrue to Harvard College because its overseers, acting in the performance of the duties of their office, have not thought it proper to confer the degree of doctor of laws upon Governor Butler. We do not suppose that the overseers gave any special thought to the popularity or the unpopularity of their act. They had a simple duty to perform, and they performed it; and to suppose that the college is to lose...
...them talk and put up all their...
...four years of residence at college were spent in the acquisition of Latin and Greek, a smattering of mathematics, enough of logic to distinguish barbara from celarent, enough of rhetoric to know climax from metonomy, and as much of metaphysics as would enable one to talk learnedly about a subject he did not understand. The students lodged in the dormitories and ate at the commons. The food then partaken of with thankfulness would now create a riot in a poor-house. At breakfast, which was served at sunrise in summer, and at day-break in winter, there was doled...
...success of the Harvard society has suggested to men at Yale and other colleges to attempt something similar, but as yet nothing but talk has been accomplished. There is no evident reason why Harvard's example cannot be followed by every college in the United States, and in view of the great interest in the experiment manifested at Amherst, Princeton, Yale, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania, there is yet room for hope that the Harvard society may be only the leader of a long line of useful organizations. If several of our leading colleges could maintain societies of this...