Word: across
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...turn to this latest trouble. I refer to the benches which are placed across the floor of the gymnasium during the winter meetings. The various officers of the day sit thereon, but we are able to "sit upon" them only in print. The motive for thus placing these benches on the floor is indeed praiseworthy; but the result is very sad, for these benches and their occupants obstruct the view of nearly half the audience. The wrestling of last Saturday, for example, could not be seen by those seated in the south end of the gymnasium, except from...
...nightfall then Lee held the same ground; although both sides were exhausted. McClellan was too much disorganized to attack the next day, and accordingly he waited for reinforcements. But meanwhile Lee fell back across the Potomac. McClellan's fault was not failure to attack again, but to attack one day earlier, while one-third of Lee's forces were at Harper's Ferry...
Yale is also complaining of bad walks across her campus...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - In these days of ice, snow, and water, a trip across the yard is a dangerous undertaking; if a man succeeds in wading safely through the numerous puddles, the chances are that he will be overwhelmed by falling snow...
...third volume of the College Series of Greek Authors is Plato's 'Apology of Socrates' and 'Crito,' edited on the basis of Cron's edition by Louis Dyer, assistant professor in Harvard University. We have rarely come across an edition of a Greek classic more satisfactory than this. Any one who reads the introduction, containing a summary of the history of Greek Philosophy anterior to the time of Plato, and who dips here and there into the commentary, will not wonder that German scholars have indicted their appreciation of Cron's work by calling for eight editions. Professor Dyer...