Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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During the spring, however, there was a change in the nature of the attacks, inasmuch as our assailants left truth entirely out of the question, and substituted - when any substitution was attempted - newspaper wit. On one occasion an agent of the Associated Press telegraphed all over the country that a...
"There is a word, too, of farewell as of hail, that I would willingly leave unspoken, - a farewell for those whose records are written, whose annals are rolled up, and whose faces we are to see no more. During the past year there are numbered among them the good, the...
"MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN, - You will bear me witness that I am not in the habit of reading a speech at the Commencement dinner; but on this exceptional occasion I propose to read part of an appropriate address which I have found written for me by another hand : -
"He would not detain the alumni longer, and certainly would not detain the government of his country longer. He felt, too, that they cared little to hear him often, as they had approved of his appointment to a foreign mission which would necessarily keep him away for a long time...
WE have passed over as too silly to need refutation several statements which have appeared lately in the Yale papers reflecting on the Nine. But the above extract from the editorial columns of the Courant deserves some notice. There is a certain class of newspapers which publish every bit of...