Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...gentlemen who have been undergraduates for five years or more assure us that they have never seen a Class Day which can compare in point of festivity and propitious weather with the Class Day of '78. Certainly the fondest hopes of the Seniors must have been realized on that...
...gentlemen, it is not alone these considerations which move me to express my gratitude for the honor which you have done me. I have had the extreme honor to have been admitted to the acquaintanceship of some of your most distinguished men, Mr. Longfellow, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Holmes. In my own country I have had even the greater honor of receiving under my roof such men as Prescott, Hawthorne, and Motley. And when I consider that through your grace I have been domiciled, so to speak, within the precincts of that sacred University whence they derived their inspiration, and where...
...conclusion, gentlemen, I cannot sit down without expressing to you my warmest admiration of the scene at which I was permitted to assist this morning. The dignity, the solemnity of that performance has made a most profound impression upon my mind. And above all, when I consider the amount of rhetorical ability, of learning, of philosophical acumen, I cannot help saying to myself, if the young America of to-day can produce such evidences of talent what will be the America of the future...
...words, for there were few indeed, we had almost said none, of those who heard the speaking, who were not disappointed and surprised at the award of the prizes. We would not for a moment question either the undoubted merits of the successful competitors, or the wishes of the gentlemen who acted as judges to do their best in a very difficult and, to some of them apparently, a novel position. But it does seem to us that power to sway an audience is one of the chief requisites of good speaking, and it is surely strange that neither...
...finish. The track runs along the bank of the Thames River, and there are only two or three points in the entire distance where trees or other objects shut out a view of the course. Each car will accommodate about eighty persons. Several cars have already been engaged by gentlemen from New Haven, and we earnestly advise our enterprising men to open registering books and secure passengers at once...