Word: speak
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...write and speak pure Attic Greek
...wish to speak upon a subject which...
...dactylic measure speak...
...have time to speak of only one religious custom of the youths. Their principal god is called Mil Wah Kee; by some, Bir. There are two great shrines of this god in the neighborhood, and the high priests at each are named Adahm and Kahrll respectively. The worship of this god is by libations. The youths are very careful to perform their duties to him at least once every day. As I saw two youths at the shrine, I conjecture that this is the usual form of the ceremonies: One of them calls out and addresses the high priest thus...
...watched with much more eagerness than any others which our teams play. In the same way we cannot but feel that an annual series of athletic sports with Yale would spur our athletes on to their best endeavors, and occasion a great improvement in the College records, not to speak of planting the seeds of a lasting enthusiasm in Athletics at Harvard by thus making the sports a matter of general interest to the College at large. Oxford and Cambridge have kept up this custom of Inter-University sports for the last sixteen years, and the inevitable success of these...