Word: around
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Four years ago a number of sophomores, of the class of '86, desirous of obtaining better accommodations for trap-shooting than the clubs around Boston afforded, organized the Harvard Shooting Club. From the very first the club was a success. The grounds of the Middlesex Gun Club at Watertown were leased, and meetings were held every week. At first the members contented themselves with shooting for cups and medals offered from time to time by the club. Last year two new features were introduced - matches with outside clubs and an inter-class team match. Two matches were shot...
...students in a twinkling and went off amid the derision of the crowd. The track by long disuse had become too clogged, however, and the car, after moving a few feet, stopped, much to the strikers' delight. Two more horses were hitched on, however, and it moved away gaily around by Beck Hall, its escort turned back, met a Mount Auburn car above the University Press and piloted it through. Mounted police escorted both cars across the bridge, and officers of the law stood on both of its platforms. There was no disturbance, the crowd being silent, and the only...
This prophesy was happily correct, though it was made in much the same spirit as that which animated a freshman, who saw an unpatriotic classmate betting against the Harvard nine on the game of the 15th, to "run around, offering odds of two to one on Harvard to the muckers, at the end of the fourth inning." It was the "never say die" of Barnaby Rudge's raven over again...
...level-headed devotees of knowledge on learning that "Bob" Cook is to be given a dinner in fourteen courses will merely entertain the impression that when their turn comes they will be asked to a stand-up lunch or an early tea with ice cream and sponge cake passed around later in the evening. President Dwight, having had his dinner with the alumni, does come within the scope of the present discussion. We may remark, however, that it is the common belief the dinner was in thirteen courses...
...service; the latter delivered a short, interesting address, choosing for his subject the healing of the blind man, as told in the ninth chapter of John. He pointed out the simularity between our own state and that of the blind man who when he received his sight, looked around him and seeing men likened them unto walking trees, but still knew they were men. Though we may feel that things are not what they seem, we have in us a knowledge that tells their true nature...