Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expected to make Gov. elect Rovinson an LL. D. without unnecessary delay. It was thought that when Gov. Butler did not receive this degree, that the practice, once having been broken, would not be resumed, but already the degree is suggested for Robinson. The lack of it did not bother Butler much, and his successor will not discover it to be of special value. The Harvard daily HERALD-CRIMSON takes the proper view of this LL. D. Business. It would have the custom of conferring the degree upon the governor of the state "remain a thing of the past...
...course it has begun and we will prophesy for it, if not certain success, at least a series of hard-fought and closely contested games with Yale. We congratulate the nine on the early arrangements of dates for its games with the Yale freshmen. They will thus avoid the bother and uncertainty which so seriously inconvenienced...
Miss Wreckless to Old Scruples, who is looking at a plaque of her painting : "Now, that's mamma; such a bother as she was; we have no oven and had to have her fired out of the house." And Scruples, who is not versed in the technicalties of china painting, goes off in doubt whether it is worse to be unfilial or to talk along. - [Life...
...lengthy discussion of last spring about the feasibility of a more equitable distribution of courts, when the occasion for action arrives the executive of the association simply folds its hands and lets matters frame their own course. So long as they themselves are well provided for, why should they bother about other people's affairs, and if they themselves are successful in getting or keeping hold of desirable courts, why should there be a general ousting in favor of the discontented few? Everyone knows that the number of players is far too great for the number of courts...
...going to keep diary any longer. Is too much bother, and I don't have time...