Search Details

Word: persons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...letter states that the election was irregular, that one person voted who had decided at the time not to row, and that another voted who was undecided whether to continue training...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...Princetonian has a tirade against smoking, and more especially against inhaling, and says "Vultures and wolves have been known to turn away from the dead body of a tobacco-user." This shows clearly that any person who uses tobacco does wrong, because he thereby deprives "vultures and wolves" of that which is, no doubt, their due. But as an argument against the weed its force will not be felt by any one who does not intend himself especially for wolf-meat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...Haven at the tone of the last Advocate in its criticism of the football match. The Yale students, it seems, had no idea that we could complain of our treatment there or could protest against the prize-fighting element of which they make a specialty. Of course, when a person does an ungentlemanly action, and then declares that he did not know it was ungentlemanly, while we pity his ill-breeding, it is useless for us to argue the point with him. And however unsatisfactory this may appear, it seems to be the wisest course left for us to follow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...When a person employs any one, he is apt to look into his previous record; the Bursar evidently considers this an entirely superfluous process, in employing a man who is to have a good deal of power over a large building full of students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...Harvard College would consider them as trespassers if they entered the college Yard or buildings in future. An exception is made, however, in the case of any scout working for a college officer. It seems to us that this is an inconsistency on the part of the Bursar. All persons who occupy rooms in the college buildings should be on precisely the same footing in respect to any rule as to whom they are to employ or refrain from employing. We cannot see what difference it need make to the Bursar whether the person is an instructor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next