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Word: backed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...debt, I think it only just to the college to explain how such an error could be made. The first item of $206 was for a Waters shell which the club last year deemed useless. As the boat did not fulfil Mr. Waters' guarantee, the club sent it back to him and refused to pay the above amount. The club this year voted to receive the boat back after he had extensively altered it and paid him the above amount...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 6/18/1887 | See Source »

...launch were under the impression that it had enough to pay for her running expenses, but this fall, after my accounts were settled, the committee notified us that it had not enough money, and the boat club in November of this college year, voted to pay back what the committee had paid last spring for running the launch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 6/18/1887 | See Source »

...senior class at Exeter have presented the Academy with a beautiful stained glass window to be placed in the back of the chapel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 6/17/1887 | See Source »

...fact that the college where the game is played owes the visiting nine a certain degree of courtesy and politeness after the game is over. The non-performance of this duty was painfully noticeable at the close of Wednesday's game. The Yale nine were allowed to go back to their coach without having received the least sign of attention from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/11/1887 | See Source »

...specific remedy to this evil, I would suggest that a number of students be made a committee to escort the visiting nine back to their coach and show them the ordinary courtesy one from hosts to guests. The men who usher at the games might most conveniently be entrusted with the performance of this task...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/11/1887 | See Source »

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