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Word: disasterously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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An exchange which has just come to our office contains the following paragraph: - "The Harvard student has a passion for attending fires, as is pretty plainly shown by the fact that over 200 undergraduates turned out at mid-night, and ran a distance of more than two miles across country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/25/1886 | See Source »

We grant that one of the recent complaints against Yale is justified. She indulges in chess clubs! Such an indulgence is inexcusable, and forebodes the most dire disaster to the college. We have watched with greatest trepidation the rise of these baneful organizations here in Cambridge. Our college chess clubs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/15/1886 | See Source »

Thoughts of some dire calamity at once seized every mind, and more than one dignified senior was about to hurry for the scene of an imagined disaster, when, as a flash from the dying embers of the enthusiastic fire of his freshman days, came this happy thought, and his heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/14/1885 | See Source »

The trip which the university eleven is to make this week to Canada naturally recalls the similar tour which our team made about six years ago. In that year the Rugby rules for football playing had just been generally adopted by the colleges of America, and it was partly to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/6/1884 | See Source »

At a meeting held in St. Louis on Saturday last to discuss the question of compulsory education, letters were read from Presidents Eliot, McCosh and Porter. Presidents Eliot and McCosh both favored compulsory attendance at schools, which view was also taken by President Porter, who said that he took it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPULSORY EDUCATION. | 3/25/1884 | See Source »

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