Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...uniform consisted of "a blue coat, the skirts turned with white, nankeen breeches, white stockings, top boots, and a cocked hat." This company continued to rejoice the hearts of the students, and win the smiles of the Cambridge maidens for twenty years, till finally, indifference caused its death. Its last captain was a member of the class of 1787. After a sleep of twenty-one years, it was (in 1811) reorganized by Gov. Gerry, and then received the name of the "Harvard Washington Corps," which name it bore during the remainder of its existence. Arms were furnished by the State...
...year now since the death of Prof. Sophocles. Shortly after his death, many stories about his peculiarities appeared in the daily papers. This story, which at least shows his originality, and his opinion of human nature, is told by Prof. Shaler. Prof. Sophocles happened upon Prof. Shaler, just after the examination, and Prof. Shaler was groaning over the unsatisfactoriness of correcting the examination books. Prof. Sophocles asked him in surprise, "Do you correct the Blue Books? Why do you do it? You know how much each student ought to get. If he does not do so well as you expected...
...Carpet Knight, Gosse's Gray, Goethe's Works, Representative German Poems, Bascom's Ethics, or Science of Duty, Oliver's Dean Stanley, Timayenis' Greece in the Time of Homer, The Statesman's Year-Book, Porter's Elements of Modern Science, Warren's Paradise Found, Arnold's Secret of Death, Hovey's Mind Reading, Leonowen's Life and Travel in India, The Open Door. John Marshall, Wilson's Congressional Government, Taussig's Present Tariff, George's Progress and Poverty...
...Carpet Knight, Gosse's Gray, Goethe's Works, Representative German Poems, Bascom's Ethics, or Science of Duty, Oliver's Dean Stanley, Timayenis' Greece in the Time of Homer, The Stateman's Year-Book, Porter's Elements of Modern Science, Warren's Paradise Found, Arnold's Secret of Death, Hovey's Mind Reading, Leonowen's Life and Travel in India, The Open Door, John Marshall, Wilson's Congressional Government, Taussig's Present Tariff, George's Progress and Poverty...
...thro' the jaws of death...