Word: whereases
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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"Whereas, The triumph of the Columbia College four - the representative of American college oarsmen at the international regatta at Henley-on-the-Thames, London, on the memorable 4th and 5th days of July, 1878 - redounds so directly and justly to the glory of our common country, that the governments and...
Whereas, the members of the Class of '78 have heard with deep sorrow of the death of their former classmate, Gurdon Saltonstall :
The grounds for this neglect are, that the object of the study is the interpretation of Shakespeare, and that elocution has nothing to do with it As has already been pointed out, we are talking, not of elocution or dramatic reading, but simply of intelligent reading, and this certainly has...
We also notice that the author uses inflexissimus in the sense of inflexible, whereas it means just the opposite.
WE print in another column a communication on the College Seal, containing Dr. Holmes's two sonnets on the subject. These and the quotations from his explanatory letter, together with Mr. Sargent's answer to the Rev. Dr. Osgood, seem to us strong arguments for a return to the old...