Word: across
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lockers in the gymnasium are so very small that their contents can but be in utter confusion. One student has helped matters by placing a shelf across the upper part of his locker, to hold his sponge, brush and comb, etc. The shelf is of wire netting, which allows a free circulation of the hot air. The expense of fitting all the lockers with such a shelf would be only a few cents each; in view of the great convenience resulting, it would seem that the authorities ought...
...through those dark gates across the wild...
...freshmen, made his appearance at the main entrance, while the sophomores awaited him, with their bowl, at the foot of the steps on the campus. With one powerful rush the freshmen forced their man down the steps, straight through the crowd of sophomores, pass the bowl, over the campus, across the Darby road, and safely housed him in Otto's beer saloon. All this was done in six minutes, the best time on record. Then the crowd rushed back to the campus to fight for the possession of the bowl, which was soon forced over the fence into the middle...
...fight over the bowl had meanwhile gone on. The freshmen raised the bowl over the Thirty-fourth street fire-plug to break it. The fire-plug broke under the heavy blows from the bowl. Finally, tired and soaked, the freshmen claimed the bowl by possession, and triumphantly carried it across the campus into the building...
...head, English female colleges have hitherto been contented with gentlemen. This is only another example to show how much farther woman has progressed in this country than in England, especially in self-independence. Not only in the matter of instructors are American women ahead of their sisters across the water, but in the number of colleges devoted to women's education and in the number of students attending them. Here, Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley are devoted solely to that purpose and the list of students in each reaches several hundred. More than this, in the West many colleges and universities...