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Word: downes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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To the bright and charming maiden who attends her first class day at Harvard the day is "a wild, delirious heaven of ice-cream and salad, of lovely young men and ecstatic round dances, of elm-shaded avenues and star lit walks, and softly breathing music and indescribable leave-takings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Day. | 6/19/1885 | See Source »

Comparing the relations of the scholar and the laborer, Mr. Hale concluded by saying: "Their life is our life. Our life is theirs. They know it, and we know it. Man of work or man of letters, our duty is the same-to lift up what has fallen down, to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/18/1885 | See Source »

Winslow pitched a perfect game, giving not a man a base on balls, having no wild pitches, and holding his opponents down to a single hit. Smith's work at second was brilliant, and he also led the nine in batting. Nichols played splendidly at first. For Wiliams, Eastman caught...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Easy Victory. | 6/11/1885 | See Source »

Sinks down the lofty ceiling,

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Thayer Commons' Hall. | 6/10/1885 | See Source »

Now it may be seriously questioned whether this is exactly the kind of result which it is desirable for a university to turn out. We want men who can think for themselves; not men with an unlimited capacity of cramming down other people's statements, and producing what is called...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Examination System II. | 6/10/1885 | See Source »

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