Word: go
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Inquisitive Old Lady. - African Chapel! Well, where do the white boys go to church, I should like to know...
With the swells who go...
...property left by Mr. Hastings amounts to about $800,000; his wife and daughter are to receive during their lifetime $15,000 a year between them, or the income of $300,000. The other $500,000 are to accumulate, and on the death of the two ladies will go, with the remaining $300,000, to Harvard College. The money is left, too, without any restriction as to the way in which it is to be spent. By the time that the College receives this bequest it will probably amount to several million dollars, making it the most munificent bequest that...
...book," in which members may write any complaint or any suggestion for the management of the club, to which the president makes reply on the opposite page. Beyond the newspaper reading-room is the debating-hall, which was greatly enlarged last summer. A large number of the men who go to Oxford expect to enter public life, for which we have no counterpart in our "politics"; they come up Liberals or Conservatives by education, and the Union debates are, for the most part, on political questions, - live questions, in which all have some concern; hence the debates have an interest...
...firmly fixed. Great delicacy of ear and eye is required, and much mechanical drudgery must be endured. Patience is the first requisite. No interpreter is needed until some advance has been made, and even then Sir Thomas Wade's Progressive Course in Colloquial and Documentary Chinese will go far towards supplying his place. A knowledge of Chinese sufficient for business purposes may be acquired in two, or at most, three years; and one of the subscribers to our professorship acquired it in six months. To obtain a mastery of the language a long time would be required. A student might...