Word: current
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...report is current in the New Haven and New York press to the effect that Albert Muller, a Yale student from Nevada, has turned adventurer. He has succeeded in swindling Lawyer Bennett out of $1000, and a New Haven bookseller has suffered to the extent of $300. He has fled and his whereabouts are unknown...
...large degree, Harvard's men becoming somewhat exhausted in their efforts to keep even with their antagonists. At the two mile flag, however, Harvard was only five seconds behind, and the Crimson supporters began to hope that their crew might pass Yale in the last two miles, as the current is stronger on the east side, where Harvard was rowing...
...current number of "Harper's Weekly" contains very good illustrations of the college buildings at Princeton, which, as pictures, compare very favorably with our own buildings...
...current number of the "Century" magazine, Julian Hawthorne and Henry Eckford have contributed timely articles on the subject of rowing by the undergraduates of our American universities. One point upon which the two may be considered to agree, although there is considerable divergence of opinion between them in other matters, is the uselessness and absurdity of the college crews-maintaining the secrecy that they attempt to regarding their movements and performances prior to the time of the annual race. As one of these authorities says, if the young men were attempting to jockey the public, and, so to speak, inveigle...
...book of Dr. Von Hoist, who is known so intimately by the large number of men who take or have taken History 13, is reviewed in the current number of the "Nation." The following extracts may prove interesting...