Word: around
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...about me certain signs of an aesthetic movement. I see certain young men who are, no doubt, sincere; but I can assure them that they are no more than caricatures." As he looked around him he said. "Save me from my disciples!" and then added, "but rather let me, as Wadsworth says, "Turn me from these bold, bad men'." Mr. Wilde spoke very pleasantly of his visit to Harvard, and suggested how finely the statue of a Greek athlete would look standing in our gymnasium, and what an ennobling influence it would have there. He said he would like...
...clock in order, you know - and they never noticed it. When they tried to get Max Miller, and couldn't, I sent 'em word I'd take his place, and they wouldn't have me. Oh, I tell you, the place's run down. Why, I used to pass around my hat among the boys after I'd got through lecturin', and get two or three dollars, and now! well, I'm glad if I get my hat back...
...still more difficult to write. Of course, the majority of men kept their overcoats on and some few tried to write with gloves. This last is somewhat difficult. The instructor himself complained of the cold. If it was too cold for a man who was at liberty to walk around, with his hands in his pockets, and who only staid for a few minutes, what must it have been for one who was obliged to sit still and write for an hour? It is not easy to collect one's thoughts when one is in momentary danger of freezing...
During the past week or two it has been widely circulated around college that the freshmen were not subscribing as liberally as they ought toward the support of their athletic interests. This rumor, it appears, has a good foundation. The manager of the freshman nine has seen every '85 man rooming in the college yard, excepting seventeen, and he has succeeded in getting just one half the amount necessary to run the nine well this year. He has been told by a number of men "to call again," but those persons should remember that there are over two hundred...
Willie Seymour, dramatic author and stage manager of Madison Square Theatre, married Miss May Davenport yesterday at the "little church around the corner...