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Word: distant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...date of the first freshman game with Yale has been fixed and is now little more than a week distant. This game takes place on our own grounds, and eighty-nine should put forth every effort to win. Yale has this year an unexceptionally strong freshman nine, if we may judge from the accounts which come from New Haven; but by keeping in strict training, and by practicing steadily, there is no reason why our freshmen should not make things ???ively for their opponents. But training and practice must be attended to if eighty-nine wishes to make a good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/10/1886 | See Source »

...number of Harvard men who went to Providence to see the base-ball game walked out to the professional grounds, which are three miles distant from the Brown grounds, on which the game was played. Fortunately they got back in time to see the opening of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/3/1886 | See Source »

...trap for his detention in the Physics on the last day. In the position of this and the English C, that is, the junior English examinations, the faculty has shown its pristine fondness for keeping most of the students indurance vile, when they are eager to fly to far distant homes. The sophomores, however, are fortunate in having no general examination, so that many of them are at liberty a week or more before their more unfortunate brothers. But on the whole the document will be found as judiciously arranged as is possible under the circumstances, giving generally sufficient time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/17/1886 | See Source »

Professor Paine is working at the text and music of a new opera which he hopes to complete at no very distant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/20/1886 | See Source »

...such an interest in supporting this reading-room, that the college authorities in course of time would be induced to provide one for us, as, is done at other colleges; but if only ten per cent of the students care about one, that happy day will probably be far distant. Will not thirty or more men show their interest by joining the reading-room at once, and paying their subscriptions at the Co-operative store...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE READING ROOM. | 3/19/1886 | See Source »

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