Word: downes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The ground on Holmes and Jarvis is very soft upon the surface, but two inches down, it is still hard with frost. How to cross Holmes field is a problem, there is so much ice and water upon the track.
It is not so uncomfortable as it looks, however, altho' its seat has been hardened by the weight of two or three generations. And now, tired out by this everlasting theme writing, I lie down upon it, draw my afghan over me, and seek that dreamland whither I fear my...
His letters grow less and less frequent after his marriage, and he seems to settle down with only an occasional bit of love-making. So his life drifts along until his wife dies. Then he is plunged into bitter grief-a grief so honest that we are forced to respect...
to the hills. But C., ah C.! He heard the summons of the blast, and cooly sauntering into the library, took from the mathematical alcove an armful of books, and loaded down with treatises on calculus, determinants, quarternions, arbitrary functions and the theory of the potential, a very Archimedes, with...
The candidates for the Princeton nine have now settled down to regular practice, under the coaching of Lynch, the pitcher of last year's Metropolitan nine. The indications are that the following positions will be filled by the same men as last season, namely: Left field, Clark, '85; right field...