Word: brethren
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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According to this article athletic contests are fast losing their Interest, as people wish to see a regular amateur exhibition and failing this. would prefer to witness a contest between avowed professionals, who make athletics a business and far exceed the efforts of their collegiate quasi-brethren...
...interests of Harvard in their academy. For a long time Exeter was the great feeding school of Harvard, but during the past few years the Exeter delegation has decreased in number to a great extent and simply because the Exeter men in other colleges have offered to their hesitating brethren what seemed to be greater advantages than are to be found among us. We understand fully how zealous every Harvard man is to help his college but we also know that a little well directed energy will accomplish more than any amount of well-intentioned talk which does not completely...
...only fair that the other side should have a chance to defend itself. Such an opportunity was given last night, and though we may still cling to our free trade dogmas we are at least gratificd to hear a manly and independent exposition of the doctrines of our dissenting brethren...
...looking forward to with so much pleasure took place at Sanders Theatre last evening before a large attendance. Colonel Higginson made a few introductory remarks, in the course of which he said: "It was the custom in Ben Jonson's days, upon the death of a writer, for his brethren of the profession to throw their pens into the grave. And to-night we, the friends of him, the anniversary of whose birthday we commemorate, lay down a few selections of our literary labors to his memory." At the conclusion of his speech, Colonel Higginson read a short poem called...
...meeting of the Christian Brethren, held Thursday evening, the following officers were elected: President, J. H. Ropes, '89; secretary, H. R. Miles, '88; treasurer, C. H. Moore, '89; librarian, A. E. Beckwith...