Word: behind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Thus arose the modern Class Day. The class of '39 enlarged the idea. The grass was cut for dancing, a platform was erected behind Stoughton, and a regular band of stringed instruments engaged. In consequence of the new arrangement, the custom of giving "spreads" originated, and the writer has before him a note, yellow with age, dated 1839, which runs as follows...
...time in defending clients, in order to support himself and his family, cannot fairly be called upon to make a step toward rectifying the errors and faults of the law which are growing more numerous every day. The consequence is, and always has been, that the law gets far behind the requirements of the age in some matters, until a truly eminent jurisconsult makes its improvement his life work. Such things as this must be remedied, and there must be a class of men to remedy them. Every science and every profession would offer analogous opportunities for the development...
Fact. 1st gent behind the bars, watching 'varsity exercise: "What's that, the nine?" 2nd gent. "Naw, they couldn't make no nine out of that, guess its the '88 crew...
...some opinions which differ so materially from those generally expressed by graduates of our sister college as to excite some surprise. To put his statement in few words, he declares that the New Haven institution is in a bad way. He claims that its methods of instruction are far behind the times, and that they are inadequate to meet the demands of those who wish to keep pace with the present advance of education. After complaining of a few minor evils which exist in the management of the college, he closes with the prediction that the new president, whoever...
...have in University, and these represent the highest point our faculty has got in the evolution from the primitive seats of our "arboreal ancestors." They are, for the most part, cheap wooden chairs, constructed with an entire disregard of the curves and angles of the human frame, and placed behind a sort of toad-stool formed of an iron upright and a small square of black walnut. This toad-stool desk gives no opportunity for comfort in writing, as it is not large enough to support the elbow and note-book at the same time, and an ordinarily bad chirography...