Word: account
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they have yet received. It is really appalling to see how bad verses can be made by one of the "ridiculous poets ;" to be made the unwilling witness of the complete lack of sense and of music their verses show. Recently, we noticed a poem, which, after a lugubrious account of the hollowness of things in general and the fearful yearning of the poet's heart in particular, gave cordial invitation in the last two lines to all the world...
...date for the hour examination in freshman Analytics was changed from May 17th to May 16th, on account of the freshman game upon the former date...
Burgess, '87, has been obliged to stop rowing on account of an injury to his knee...
...Cricket Club will not do any practicing this year on account of the impossibility of getting its grounds on Jarvis field sodded and in proper working order...
...Sunday Herald,"in its account of the Yale-Brown game says: "There was a great deal of excitement throughout the game, but not much money was up, excepting some that was bet by Harvard men who came down to back Brown and lost." It is rather surprising to find such a statement as this in the Herald, one which, even if it were true, would be in very bad taste, when in reality it is utterly without foundation...