Word: downing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Sickening the senses, showering down the bloom
WHEN, in term-time, a comparatively few students go down to New Haven to see a ball-match, excursion rates are arranged and the party go for nearly half fare; but when several car-loads of Harvard students go to the Regatta at Springfield, full fare both ways is charged...
"The hackmen revel in happiness, the benevolent shop-keeper presents a countenance wreathed with smiles, the ancient washerwomen stand around in public places, and, uplifting their skinny hands, call down all sorts of blessings on our heads. "Yes, the 'stoodints' have certainly come. Waiter-girls smirk, boarding-school girls smirk...
"He was a graduate of Harvard, and he got a position on one of the Philadelphia dailies last week. 'Cut that stuff of yours down,' said the city editor as the new man came in with a column where a stick only was required. 'Do you desire a judicious elimination...
COLLEGE papers of that class which delight their readers with articles on "Character," "Fame," and the "Whole Duty of Man," have been greatly distressed this year because our papers have given up so much space to matters relating to Memorial Hall, and the Yale papers even have failed to find...