Word: earths
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...quiet, so peaceful, so free from care." This thought has hardly passed through our minds, when a horrid noise re-echoes from the wall, rolling from story to story with wild clamor; at last it dies away, and when silence reigns again we gasp, with dismay, "What on earth was that?" "That," says Snodkins, taking his cigarette from his lips, and blowing fragrant little rings of smoke into the air, "that is a man who bought a drum before the election, and who practices it yet; sounds rather loud in the well, doesn't it?" Loud, we should rather...
...course you do not know how to reach it, but the accommodating assistants will inform you. You ascend the staircase and find yourself in what appears to be a very bare and uninteresting room. Be not deceived; its treasures like those of the earth, must be sought after in order to be found. There are things which must attract every one's attention, but let me say that it is a veritable paradise for cranks-I mean such cranks as coincollectors, bibliophilists and autographic fiends. How their hands must itch to see lying before their eyes such unattainable treasures...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON :-Your tennis correspondent in the Friday edition suggested in answer to your invitation, that the courts be made of earth in place of the usual turf; though he admitted the latter to be the better, he advocated the former. There is no reason why we should not have courts of good turf, and my plan is this : that early next spring the ground be sodded and that a man be employed, whose duty it will be to keep the ground in order, and protect the place from that immortal nuisance, the Cambridge mucker...
Allow me therefore to suggest a plan that will obviate at least a part of the difficulties. Let the management take off all the turf where the courts are and have the ground cleared of stones and rolled; this will give us earth courts, which are far better than any but the best turf courts, and more
...closing reiterate the impossibility of having good courts of turf; they must be of earth if we expect to accomplish anything...