Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Keating, P. M. Robinson...
OSCAR FAULHABER, Ph. D., has announced by circular a summer course of six weeks in the pronunciation and idiomatic use of the French and German languages. The course is to be given in the building of the Robinson Female Seminary, at Exeter, N. H., and it will doubtless be both pleasing and profitable...
Some of the rules laid down seem to us rather calculated to discourage the trio in athletics. The uniform of the association, for instance, presents some difficulties to gentlemen not accustomed to protean changes in the circus-ring. The accomplished Mr. Robinson, who wore some fourteen waistcoats and any number of unmentionables, would perhaps be equal to the feat of wearing at one and the same time knee-breeches, trunks, and drawers, but an ordinary mortal, who has hitherto contented himself with two thicknesses of nether integuments, would find the garments so liberally provided by the association an embarras...
...meeting of the Philosophical Club last Thursday evening, Mr. Wells, '79, was elected President, and Mr. E. Robinson, '79, Secretary of the Society...
Though a good many names were proposed, the struggle for the Chairman of the Class Committee lay between Mr. Robinson and Mr. Preston. Mr. Preston was elected. The second position on this Committee was filled by Mr. Rindge. The third position was not filled until after four ballots were taken, when Mr. Perry received four votes more than the other chief candidate, Mr. Trimble, and was elected...