Word: account
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale Courant encourages its readers by a prophetic account of the Yale-Harvard race in 1986 in which Yale at last beats Harvard by 1 1-4 seconds...
...following account, from the Denver Tribune-Republican for Feb. 12, is pleasant reading for Harvard graduates and undergraduates...
...account of flooded railroad tracks several men were unable to get home Saturday...
...letter from Yale, published in a New York paper, contains a very able contradiction of the general belief that college life is degenerating into a life of athletics, impiety, and social dissipation. The same paper had previously printed a disparaging account of Yale's endeavors to get a new gymnasium and to have an earlier chapel hour, of her holding class Germans, of her crew's having a trainer, of her indulging in chess clubs, and of her having a Glee Club that was to give a concert. We do not ourselves see, in any one of the matters above...
...soloist. Her voice is pleasant in quality, but lacks the power to make the most of such a piece as the first aria. The second, which called for nothing more than expert and smooth vocalization, was more within her powers. The audience, which was rather small on account of the bad weather, was sufficiently pleased to recall her after each number...