Word: calling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Granting that the "Harvard Arion Quartette," or the "Arion Quartette of Harvard Students," did not travel through New England on the productive capital of the name of Harvard; granting that it was a mistake to call attention to this rival society; and granting that your paper was unjust in censuring them, - concessions which not every one will be ready to grant, - it must still be conceded that there is something questionable in the conduct of men who, having the balance of power in their hands, insist on the resignation of two members - to them personally unpopular - because one was once...
...with great pleasure that we call attention to the Readings from Chaucer which Professor Child is now giving on Tuesday evenings, and to the Lectures on English Literature which Mr. Perry proposes to begin next week. Both of these gentlemen have been giving courses of lectures in Boston this winter, but it is, of course, impossible for many of us to find time enough to attend a course of lectures in the city. It is therefore very pleasant to have such opportunities brought to our own door, and we sincerely hope that a considerable number of men will take advantage...
Early in the morning, before the Muezzin summons the faithful in our own beautiful Teheran, I was told to go to a small mosque which they call Shah-pehl. Faithful to the customs of my country, I entered and took my seat cross-legged on the floor, in a narrow passage which ran down the middle. I noticed that much applause followed this simple action, and have since heard that these young dogs (I will pollute the tombs of their forefathers) call this expression of feeling the uhoodhup...
...words were said by a venerable Mollah, who is their chief, and whom they call El Peebhoh. The young men were grieved and looked in their hats. I, as you know, could not unwind my turban in a public place, but I took off my slipper and gazed in that. I presume he was cursing them. Some yawned and got behind pillars, while others took from their pockets books of charms, no doubt to avert the imprecation...
...pipes at the back of the mosque, and this grieved all the youths still more, while some, who sat by the pipes, opened their mouths in agony, but made no sound, respecting, doubtless, the sacredness of the place. This exercise, which seems to have no object, they call in their language Pehn, which means distress or tribulation. As this ceased the young men dashed out, some clearing me at a bound...