Word: backed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...shop of the manufacturer. The placing of this window in the Dining Hall was merely an experiment, and as the window did not meet the hopes of the graduates who intended to give it to the University, as regards either its artistic worth or its usefulness, it was sent back to the makers in New York...
...distinctly. Our advice to them now is, to row under the best conditions they can get, but at any rate to row. Let them persuade their rivals, if they can, to go to New London; if not, let them yield to superior obstinacy. It is too late to go back now without incurring all sorts of unpleasant suspicions. We repeat what we said when the challenge was first sent, the Freshmen have simply to go in and do their best. In future they, or rather their successors, will do well to look more carefully before they leap, and to consider...
...give back thy kiss again...
...point we tried to bring out clearly was, not why we should have more and better music at Harvard, but why we do not have it. This we traced back to the prevailing lack of energy, for which we could neither account nor propose any remedy...
...managed with such precision, and the unhappy student who enters No. 5 is passed on from room to room, as his iniquities grow larger and his excuses weaker, until he comes out of the sieve feeling very small indeed, - in these dismal times it is refreshing to look back to the happy days of our fathers, when postal cards were not invented, when the Registrar was unheard of, and the Dean troubled not the dreams of Freshmen...