Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...protest. We must bear in mind, however, that the animosity necessary for a contest between the two lower classes no longer exists; generous rivalry has taken its place. Why, then keep up the form of a rush, if the spirit is gone? If a branch of a tree is dead, we lop it off. For the same reason, a rush for which none of the participants seem very anxious, should be given...
Professor Packard of the Greek department at Yale is dead...
...balls used at the intercollegiate tournament were not regulation, being heavy and very dead...
...accomplished, and every tennis player ought certainly to be enrolled among its members. Strange as it may seem, however, there are some men who prefer to avail themselves of the club's privileges without paying the merely nominal fee required. It has been decided to prevent this "dead-head" occupation of ours, that no person shall be allowed to use an association court unless prepared to show a certificate of membership, and it is hoped that this course will result both in increasing the membership of the club, and in protecting the interests of its members...
...expedient and a pleasant novelty, in that it unites with a common interest so many of our centrifugal institutions of higher learning, would be unpractical as a permanent plan. When the utility of the school, as bringing life and sympathy into the study of antiquity, too often arid and dead under the parrot like methods of instruction hard to avoid entirely here a study indispensable to an adequate grasp of the significance of civilization and the scope of human intelligence-is brought before the public, it is desired and expected that some of our many munificent friends of learning will...