Word: uses
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...places. I began conversation, and soon found that I had it painfully my own way. I consoled myself, however, with the thought that, by such uninterrupted opportunity of speech as I seemed destined to have during the evening, I should soon, by this practice, acquire that refined and intelligent use of the mother-tongue which, according to the most recent utterances of the Faculty, is the chief object of education. But I soon began to fear that my partner's emotions had struck her dumb, for in vain I completely exhausted the standing army of society topics. The biggest stones...
...Nine played a remarkably fine up-hill game in the field, and if Ernst will only use as much strategy in the remaining games as he displayed in the last eight innings, Harvard will secure the base-ball championship...
PROFESSOR ALEXANDER AGASSIZ has offered the use of his steam yacht for coaching purposes, at New London...
...many having engagements of importance, the delay of an hour in serving lunch at Memorial Hall last Saturday was a serious inconvenience; to all it was a great annoyance. Under the circumstances it is but natural to question whether the Faculty are justified in using the Hall without communication with the Directors, and to delay a meal for an hour without notice sufficient to attract the attention of anybody. It would, perhaps, be different if the Dining Association were allowed to use the Hall simply as a favor; but paying, as we do, what amounts to a very considerable rent...
HARVARD has now the most costly building for a Gymnasium in this country; she has students enough who are willing, even anxious, to use it, but no one to wisely assume the direction of fitting it with the apparatus, nor to take charge of it when complete. Judging from the overtures that have been made to several well-known instructors in gymnastics, the want (real or supposed) of money is likely to delay for the present the true use of this fine building, and make it simply an enlarged and better illustrated section of the present Gymnasium, which...