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Word: backed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...scattered through smaller communities is unnoticed. The elements that inhere in New York are in our towns and villages varied crimes in extent and depth; the crime, also the degradation and the lethargy. Pure unselfish and loyal citizenship is needed throughout the country as well as in the city. Back in the country road vice lurks and purity waits long for succor. Each man's duty is nearest to his hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM HARVARD'S HISTORY. | 6/17/1895 | See Source »

...trust, its richest fruit. Here you have dreamed dreams and seen visions. For the most glorious of those dreams and the loveliest of these visions you will be held responsible. If you should fail of your highest purposes in life, you will not be able to fall back upon the excuse that the highest ideals have not been given, for they are yours now. What you will do with them remains for you to answer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM HARVARD'S HISTORY. | 6/17/1895 | See Source »

...that purpose in the hall. I do not very often give personal answers to the complaints but invariably look into the merits of all communications addressed to me. I should like also to remind everybody that the best way to obtain better food, is to send back that which is objectionable, with a brief note to the effect that it is so. The more suggestions there are sent to the directors, the more satisfactorily they may hope to manage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. D. A. Notice. | 6/14/1895 | See Source »

LONDON, June 12. - The wind had almost subsided when the Cornell crew went over the course this afternoon. The crew, consisting of Matthews, Spillman, Hagen, Freeborn, Fennell, Dyer, Louis, and Hall(stroke), rowed a quarter of a mile down and back at a 46-stroke, after which they turned and went to the Fawley Court boat house. On the way to the boat house they made several short spins of about half a minute each, which were taken at about the same rate. The bodies of the men were even and steady. The boat rolled a little and their stroke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell Crew in England. | 6/13/1895 | See Source »

EDWARD G. KNOBLAUCH.PEN AND BRUSH CLUB. - Picture back of Sever Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notice. | 6/11/1895 | See Source »

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