Word: deal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great deal of hard work must be done in order to make our Mott Haven team of this year a winning one. Although there is every prospect for as good a team as last year, still it must be borne in mind that we did not win last year; and therefore must put forth all our energies to develop and perfect the material that we have. The loss of Rogers will be very severely felt, there being no one to take his place in the 100-yards dash. A good deal of attention will be given to developing...
...venture to suggest that B or C written at the end of a theme would tell one a good deal more than most of the criticisms which one now finds there. If his themes were marked one would have a definite notion of the value of his work-a notion which he certainly cannot get from "This shows care" or "Literary promise." Of course there are drawbacks to my plan, but I offer it as an improvement, not as an ideal...
...Samuel Carpenter, the elder, 1649-1714," by Wharton Dickinson, treats of an early period in Pennsylvania history of great importance. The article offers a great deal of information of Pennsylvania in the early times of the Colonies. This is followed by an "Account of the Battle of Horseshoe," which contains General Jackson's report of the battle, never before published. General Wright has made a very interesting article...
This paragraph in the mayor's address has been the subject of a great deal of speculation to day. It is learned that he was induced to recommend the purchase of the park by facts brought to his knowledge by the trustees of Clark University, which were substantially these: Nearly a year ago Rev. Eli Fay, D. D., of Los Angeles, Cal., made an offer to the American Unitarian Association through Rev. Edward Everett Hale, of Boston, to give $600,000 for the endowment of a college for women, to be located somewhere in Massachusetts. Dr. Fay's conditions were...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- At the Glee Club concert last Friday evening there was a great deal of complaint about the way the programmes were distributed. A great many who came in late were unable to get any, as all of those that had been placed in the seats were taken. It seems that there were enough of them to supply the audience, if some persons who came early had not pocketed an extra one for some friend. In future, cannot some better way be devised for distributing them, than by placing them in the seats where a person can take...