Word: talking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bearing very easily the weight of seventy-five long years, tries to steal away again. But it won't do. The boys must have a speech, and the doctor submits. How he brightens and sparkles! No dry remarks on anatomical subjects, no learned dissertation on medical principles. Only a talk with the boys, reminiscences of the college's earlier days, happy hits and flings, and then good-by until another month has passed...
...Yale men in training for the college boat race said today: "Yale will not be governed in her policy by the action of other colleges, though she may be influenced to a certain extent. The talk about the race not being rowed unless Yale agrees to adopt the inter-collegiate rules is simply an attempt to bulldoze our college. It will not succeed, though the crew will make what concessions they can without injuring their prospects of winning. The race will be given up altogether rather than submit to outside dictation. It is very improbable that any obstacle will arise...
...will be recollected that a very prominent excuse offered by Harvard for not rowing Pennsylvania was the expense of preparing a crew, or, at least, of sending one, if only to the Charles River; so it strikes us a trifle inconsistent to talk about sending a second eight. They might, however, be sent on by express. [University of Pennsylvania Magazine...
...denying that a certain set of young Americans, more particularly in New York and in Boston, affect the Englishman and ape all his affectations. They mimic every English trick in the most snobbish way. They attempt an English accent, and they sprinkle Briticisms freely through their speech. They talk of their "fads," and they call people "cads," and they abound in the most amusing little affectations. Their greatest happiness is to be taken for an Englishman-a joy not often vouchsafed to them. It was to one of these pitiful imitations-a young Bostonian-that a clever New York girl...
...Russian journal contains an account of a conversation between Turgeneff and some literary friends in which the novelist is reported to have said of Victor Hugo: "In the course of a talk with me on Goethe he expressed the opinion that he couldn't find anything great in the writings of that author. When I drew his attention to the fact," continues Turgeneff, "that 'Wallenstein's Camp' was by Schiller, and not by Goethe, he answered: 'That is all the same thing-Goethe and Schiller, they are fruits of the same tree; and believe me that I know, even without...