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Word: downes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Gentlemen. - It seems to me that a word should be said concerning those students, happily not many in number, who make themselves conspicious at prayers by reaching for hat and books as soon as the hymn is ended, and starting down the aisle before the benediction is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAPEL CONDUCT. | 2/1/1886 | See Source »

I go in, take my note book and try to write, but the sun comes blazing down on the back of my head and neck till my eyes swim and I wonder whether my hair will be light pink or blue the next day. This may sound fearful, but I...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO COMPLAINTS. | 1/25/1886 | See Source »

Secondly. I go to the gymnasium, I own a locker which is right by the door by which men enter the dressing rooms. Every time a man goes out or comes in, (and they average two a minute,) that wretched door fans a great cold drought of air down my...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO COMPLAINTS. | 1/25/1886 | See Source »

With nearly two hundred courses in subjects ranging from Semitic to Natural History, it seems strange that one study, of interest to every one, should be almost entirely neglected. We refer to that grandest of sciences, astronomy. We know that there is a course given in college, set down in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/23/1886 | See Source »

...begun at ye hour of dawn and was closed at ye ringing of ye dinner belle. Many maids and matrons sate on ye fence of rales and saw ye playe. When Master P. had admonished ye players, ye stronge rusherman of ye faire Harvarde youths sallied yth the balle downe ye north side of ye field toe ye pond of John Eliot. Insomuch as bothe ye teames were dressed in suits of plaine homspune ye men of Yayle were bare-footed that they might be seene. Now close be ye pond of Eliot were foure bigge men of Yayle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball in 1699. | 1/19/1886 | See Source »

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