Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were stationed as sentries at the entrance. The boatswain often summoned the crew of the "Harvard" by sounding his shrill whistle in front of Holworthy, then, as now, the senior's headquarters. Latterly the eligibility for "service" was much less strict and they even went so far as to admit men who had received commencement parts, but the true navy always consisted of those men who had never received a part, while the marines were those who had minor or second parts, and the horse marines, those who had major or first parts...
Stevens Institute will hereafter admit to the freshman class only the fifty passing the best entrance examinations...
...advice. "Say, boys," exclaims the conversational exchange editor of this sheet, hadn't you better revise your list of the 'Forty Immortals ?' Give a place to Bishop Spaulding and J. Gilmary Shea !" It is with a good deal of hesitation that we reply to this suggestion, for we must admit that until now we never knew that any such literary light was shining in the west as J. Gilmary Shea. And while we have no doubt that both Bishop Spaulding and J. Gilmary Shea are authors worthy of respect when once their works are known, still we beg to assure...
...second year at the academy, he was taken sick and obliged to give up his studies for the remainder of the year. In spite, however, of this long interruption in his course at the academy, he tried the preliminary examinations for Harvard, in June, '79, and passed enough to admit him unconditionally into his old class at Exeter, at the beginning of the next school year...
...this game. It seems that in arranging for the game at Cambridge a telegram was sent promising one half the receipts to our eleven, and also promising to pay one-half their expenses to Cambridge. When it came time to adjust the money matters the Harvard management would not admit that any such promise had been made, and it was not until the telegram was referred to that they finally decided to keep their agreement...