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Word: distant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...average Harvard student, and we are pleased, for our vanity of course, is at stake, to see that the figures run up among the garrets in which the article was evidently written. If the article "takes," we trust that next season, or even next week in the distant and truthful west, we may see a cipher or two more added to the sum. With what pleasure should every Harvard student read this glaring account of his "slinging" his papa's money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/9/1885 | See Source »

...last year, when plans were submitted which called for an exorbitant outlay. Yet the designs for the building which are to be presented to-night call for an outlay at the same time reasonable, and within the means of the students. We trust that the day is not far distant when our beautiful grounds may be furnished with as appropriate a building as that which overlooks the field at Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/29/1885 | See Source »

...slowly so as to "hold" the cars of the rival line, is little less than an outrage. If this state of things which now prevails is allowed to continue we should not be surprised to see a line of cars lying at anchor on Main street at some not distant day, or, worse yet, the drivers may receive instructions to drive backwards. No wonder that an L road is prayed for by Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/15/1885 | See Source »

...rights as the average freshman class. Can it be that the millennium is approaching, when the sophomore and freshman are to lie down together, like the oft-mentioned lion and lamb? During our own first two years in college we thought that day to be far distant. Can it be that it is so near while we are yet undergraduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Conmmet. | 5/26/1885 | See Source »

...August, while taking a trip to Plymouth on board the Stamford, was severely injured in the collision of the boat with another steamer. Her spine was seriously affected, and for two months, she was utterly helpless, and she is now a delicate invalid with no immediate, if even a distant prospect of being able to earn her living, and support her children...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN APPEAL FOR MRS. FREDRIKSEN. | 5/4/1885 | See Source »

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