Word: behind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...your beats as we are limited to our seats, and depend more on vigilance of eye than on pedestrian awfulness. Do not continually pass between us and the windows; and please, please, sweet proctors, hang over our shoulders as little as possible. Don't stand, like the Devil, behind our backs, but pose in the foreground that we may be constantly encouraged by your inspiring presence...
...these cant terms clings to us more or less through life and marks us as men of Harvard. The man of '79 is as easily recognized at times as the grave and potent senior who has but just heard the gates of his alma mater close behind...
...yard Tuesday afternoon rather slowly and aimlessly, watching the trunks and bags roll out of the yard and catching glimpses of well-filled horsecars leaving Harvard Square, and finally climbing to their rooms with a feeling, the whole burden of which is contained in these two familiar words, "Left behind...
...fire in the lumber pile behind the Physical Laboratory yesterday, caused some excitement among the men who were at work there...
...expression they might be considered somewhat spasmodic. The "African March" was a very striking number. Mr. Carey's whistling was as good as ever, while the audience expressed their customary approbation. Although the Glee Club carried off the honors in the matter of encores, the Pierian was not behind in real success. Of course there was noticeable at times the roughness and lack of precision which is the unavoidable accompaniment of an amateur performance; while in one place there was a distressing want of harmony in the reed instruments, yet all such blemishes were of wonderfully rare occurrence. Meyerbeer...