Word: around
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are a good many old Princeton boys around about here, and we naturally feel deeply grieved at the humorous Dr. Holmes insinuating that Princeton had been girdled around by Styx until Harvard enlightened her, and that Harvard had set fire to Calvinism and was burning it up in a blaze of truth...
...would object to a corresponding shortening of the long summer vacation. Harvard College exercises begin fully a week later in the fall than those of most other colleges, and I think most students agree that we would spend this week much more profitably in college than in looking around our native streets after most of our friends had begun their studies...
...That is what we call progressive reading. If "'88" does his topic reading that way, we do not wish to imitate him. Rear backwards! You might as well begin a house by setting the roof, or sit down at whist and lear out before the cards are all dealt around...
...enlarged and perfected by the emperor Claudius. In the course of this work cassions were first used; the great ship which had brought over the obelisk that now stands in Rome, from Egypt, was filled with concrete until it sank to the bottom. Then the stone work was built around it and up to above water-level. On top of the break-water a mighty lighthouse, in imitation of the famous Pharos, was erected. All Rome's demands were supplied through Ostia and we therefore find enormous warehouses there...
...touchdown. Time 10 minutes. No goal was kicked. Pennsylvania kicked out on the 25 yard line and the ball was in the middle of the field for a time. Remington, Holden, and Sears, by fine rushes, advanced the ball 40 yards. Then, on lining up, Holden took the ball around by phenomenal running and dodging, and secured the second touchdown for Harvard. No goal. Harvard soon got the ball inside of the 25-yard line, and Sears passed through the Pennsylvania men with ease, scoring the third touch-down for Harvard. Again no goal. Pennsylvania, then, by several well placed...