Word: account
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following account of a German students' duel, a thing which is of frequent occurrence on the other side may interest those of our readers who are taking fencing lessons, though we trust it will not stir up any blood-thirsty desires in their American breasts...
Many students at Wesleyan are obliged to room in private houses on account of the crowded condition of the dormitories...
Embody in the University Club, reading-room, smoking-room, place of rendezvous and restaurant, if you will and can; but also turn it to some more solid account by making it a place where matters of college interest may be discussed: a not only talked about, uselessly and with no power of direct result, but in such manner that the opinions prevailing have some concrete effect easiest obtained by giving the debaters votes. Quod bene vertat...
There is cause for great congratulation that the College Base-ball League has been formed. The movement for an improvement in college base-ball has been favored by us from the first and our opinion was but one in many. Every lover of the national game must read the account published on our first page to-day with satisfaction and delight. Hereafter there will be no doubt about the best nine in the League. Four games with each club will settle the superiority, if there is any to be settled. Our friends in New York will not be able...
...final victory over the Yale and Columbia freshmen at New London last summer. It is brightly and amusingly written from beginning to end. Little incidents are told of each man on the crew, and each one is given his own peculiar nick-name. The author gives a very interesting account, to begin with, of the organization of the crew. To quote his own words: "Forty men, more or less, the 'pride and flower' of the class, assembled in the gymnasium, afternoon upon afternoon, with beating hearts and anxious faces. Lean men, short men, fat men, tall men, sturdy men, sallow...