Word: wrote
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale sympathizer talking recently with a Harvard freshman remarked that there was no man at Harvard to originate such an opera as "Penikeese," and, upon the freshman mentioning the author of "Forever and a Day," the Y. S. exclaimed, "Oh, yes; isn't he the fellow that wrote the Harvard Greek play I've heard so much about...
...nearly every production of every commentator upon certain classical authors. Professor Gildersleeve has been an omniverous reader ever since he was a boy of twelve. He showed me some of his note-books that he had written out while at Princeton. Whenever he finished reading a book he wrote in his note-book his opinions of the work, and made comparisons between it and other works. His favorite author is Lucan, and he has in his study a fine collection of Lucaniana. The advanced students of the seminary are this year confined to Aristophanes, and in connection with the comedies...
Complaints have lately been uttered about the delay suffered by various persons in ordering books and other articles through the Co-operative Society. Upon investigation, it seems to us that substantial grounds for this dissatisfaction do exist. An order was kept at the office in which members duly wrote their commissions, but in the delivery the precedence of names has not always been followed, and the articles on hand have been distributed without reference to person. In this manner some have received undue preference, and others are clamorous against the unbusiness-like method which has been followed. So long...
...MELCHER, Secretary.Cambridge, Mass.The above circular was issued under the auspices of the Finance Club; the prize has been awarded to Mr. Homer Gage, '82, who wrote on subject No. 2. The gentleman will read his essay Thursday evening, June 15th, in Sever 13, beginning at 7.45. The public are cordially invited to attend...
...Snifkins wrote to his father, who's farmin' out West, that he was very busy with his annuals, and the old man wrote back that he "wants to be mighty keerful 'bout what kin' of seed...