Word: collection
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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MORAL: It is easy to sell one's self, but difficult to collect the money...
Early in the afternoon the crowd began to collect on the shores of the lake, and by 5 o'clock about two thousand people had assembled. There were about sixty or eighty Harvard men present, and Yale men were conspicuous chiefly by their absence. At 5.05 P. M. the signal was given for the contestants to appear. Livingstone was soon seen pushing off from the float of the Quinsigamond Boat Club, and only a few minutes elapsed before the Harvard representative pulled up from O'Leary's boat-house and took his position at the start. Livingstone had the choice...
...hammer does not seem to us quite as it should be: "Letting go of the hammer in an attempt counts as a 'try'." When the "solid iron sphere, weighing sixteen pounds," strikes a spectator in the head, we think it extremely likely that that individual, if able to collect his ideas, would look upon it as a 'throw'. After several spectators in the immediate neighborhood had been carried off prostrated by these 'tries,' the judges might with reason decide that the contestant had done enough for that afternoon, as the spectators seemed not hurt, but somewhat discouraged...
...have read this to Popkins, who is an aspirant, and he is delighted with it. He complains, however, that the hardest work is to collect material for the dissertation. I am surprised at this; the process is so simple. Take your note-book and go to the Library. Consult encyclopaedias first; if the Brittanica treats the subject, you need look no farther. Then take Poole's Index, and hunt up magazine articles. If there are any books on the subject, don't read them; but read the reviews, for a good review contains the cream of the book all ready...
Decidedly the race has a passion for collections. Why should not I indulge in the universal rage, and collect autophones...