Word: bents
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fatal play, a line plunge just outside left guard, the Harvard back, aided by two or three of his team-mates, had gained a few yards when Byrne dove head foremost in front of the men. In some way his head was caught so that it was bent under his chest as the players fell on him. He remained in a semi-conscious condition for some time, breathing very slowly and most of the time only by means of the constant efforts of a doctor. The physicians worked all night and managed to keep him alive until 6.35 o'clock...
...year his junior. There was a close friendship between the two young men during the five years of John Harvard's residence in Cambridge. At 28, he received the degree of A.M.: Of his character we know almost nothing, except that he chose good friends, and had a literary bent. In 1636 he married Saddler's sister, and in 1637 came to America...
...subject. As the most interesting of these in the eyes of college men, the position which graduates can hold in the world of politics was his first topic. The advisability of becoming actively identified with political affairs cannot be affirmed by generalities, but must be decided according to the bent of the individual. It is the duty of every intelligent citizen, whether he take active part or not, to devote time and thought to the wise use of his vote. Politics, like charities, should begin at home...
...stuffed with botany, geology, astronomy or metaphysics, but a cricket bat, a tennis racket, a football, an car, is put into his hands and he is taught to use it. And, then, when he comes to the university he has formed a habit and continues to follow his bent. The French boy studies or plays marbles in the streets; the German boy promenades the streets in droves, although now less than he used to do; but the English boy plays games of afternoons. What a blessing it would be if the lookers on could be shoved out of the Stadium...
Judge L. B. Colt, of the United States Circuit Court, recently handed down a decision sustaining the defendants in the case of Herbert F. Brigham vs. Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, holding that the gift of $5,000,000 by Peter Bent Brigham for the establishment of a hospital is valid. Until it is definitely known whether the decision will be appealed, nothing will be done towards building the Hospital, although the plans for it have already been drawn by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge...