Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...studious part of the college community exposed to the constant risk of being taken off their feet by the runners of the little coasters as they come flying down the slope. If these innocent children had any conception of the danger they occasion the college "grind," they would immediately desert this well-worn slide and turn the prows of their sleds toward the side of the hill that slopes down to Harvard Street. Will not some authorized person inform these little sinners of the inceptive crimes they commit every...
...Advocate is at hand. The opening poem, "The Desert Warrior," is a stirring war-song from the Arabic. It is smoothly and powerfully written, and there is a wild ring in the concise lines which adds double force to the warrior's savage and boastful song. "A Country Frolic" is a jolly life-like sketch, almost making one see the party at the "Forge." There would have been no diminution of the general effect of the sketch, if the conclusion had not contained the almost inevitable and common reference to a marriage. "Uncle Joe" is a sweet little story...
...authority of R. J. Burdette, there is another member of Semetic family of languages - Gum Arabic, the dialect of the toothless sons of the great desert...
...Princetonian says of the position Harvard has been taking in regard to foot-ball, that "the Harvard faculty might better have allowed the Harvard undergraduates to stand by the ship, and have done Harvard's share in raising the standard of the sport, rather than to temporarily desert and leave Yale and Princeton to overcome the difficulties present and prepare everything for Harvard's safe return...
...SOCIETY. Meeting in Mass. 2 this Thursday evening at 7.30 p.m. Communication - Geological Sketch of Mt. Desert, by W. C. Appleton, '87. Members of the university not belonging to the society are invited to attend...