Word: talking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is some talk of offering President Arthur the presidency of Union College, of which he is a graduate...
...ideal. The presence of the students in the streets in England, attired in their ridiculously short gowns, in Germany with parti-colored caps, gives an idea of gaiety and life to the throng of busy passers-by. All is University, for the very townsfolk can do nothing but talk of this new rule, that escapade of the students, the coming boat race and the thousand and one occurrences that mark the daily life at any large college. Cambridge is no exception to the rule and may be looked upon as one large school, so general is the influence cast upon...
There is some talk of forming a rink polo club to play against the Yale team...
...There is talk of reviving boating at Trinity. The college owns a convenient boat house and a number of shells, which for some time have been unused...
...Gosse, for the greater part of the time, talked in an informal way about his edition of Gray's works and the "finds" he had made of Gray's works, and the "finds" he had made of Gray's manuscript. "Chips from a Cambridge workshop," was what Mr. Gosse called this informal talk. Mr. John Morley. He said, had started to write up Gray for the English Men of Letter series, but had bequeathed his literary work to Mr. Gosse. From this beginning in the Men of Letters Series, Mr. Gosse betook himself to editing the works of Gray...