Word: elders
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prior to the dinner the annual meeting was held in one of the parlors of the Parker House and the election of officers took place with the following result: President, W. W. Crapo; secretary, Marcus Morton, Jr., 1883; treasurer, W. J. Badger, 1882; vice-presidents, Samuel J. Elder, 1873; Samuel C. Darling, 1864; Prof. E. J. Hincks, 1866; Dr. F. I. Knight, 1862; F. W. Kittredge, 1865. - Extracts from Boston Herald...
...waters of Massachusetts Bay, as Boston harbor was then called. As they passed the islands, which then as now stand watch and ward over the entrance of this estuary of the Charles, they bestowed upon those islands a name which they still bear, that of the Brewsters, after their Elder, William Brewster, who had been a scholar of Peterhouse in the great university in England. A year or two later, when that solitary Englishman - how he came, when and whence, we are at a loss to know - built his hut on the Shawmut peninsula, not far from where Louisburg Square...
...watchword is uttered over them. But this wholesale absorption is by no means the only occasion which the students take to empty a glass at one draught. If a newly initiated member, - a so-called "Fuchs" is present and becomes at all "fresh" in word or deed, an elder member need only beckon to him or call out "Bierjunge," when his glass is refilled and he has to empty it in face of the whole company. This is considered a great humiliation and amounts to asking everybody's pardon for his behavior. If, however, the "Fuchs" thinks that...
...following are the Princeton class-day officers for 1886: Master of ceremonies, C. M. DeCamp; president, M. C. Fleming; secretary, T. Evans, Jr.; orator, C. R. Erdman; poet, A. S. Mapes; ivy orator, J. Cashman; memorial orator, A. W. Durell; presentation orator, J. H. Gaines; prophet. W. S. Elder; censor, P. Bailey; historian, S. Paton...
...grind, and the grindstone. It is rumored in Chicago that the recent explosion in C - e H - e unearthed two new species, the "hard grind" and the "regular grind." Someone who reads this may call this a "grind," but it is not, it is not even a lie. The elder Pliny was a grind, and Vitellius Spiculus was a grind. But they had brains and it paid them to grind. It is even said that the elder Pliny wore glasses. There is an old legend which is to-day told in one of the Swiss villages among the Alps...