Word: ending
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Rome the library of Aristotle which had been enlarged by his disciple Theophrastus. The apartment used for a library must face the East, so that the owner might spend the early morning hours in reading. A private library of seven hundred volumes was discovered at Herculaneum in the end of the eighteenth century...
...pulling than there is handling of the ball. Fists are not infrequently used, and in the Harvard game I saw two men pulling at each other, hitting at each other and wrestling behind the referee's back. He was near the ball all the time, and they were end men, so that be only occasionally got a glimpse of them. Now we hear it stated that Harvard showed more knowledge of modern foot-ball this year than ever before. This means simply that Harvard answered the tactics of its rivals and met force with force, fists with fists. Doubtless foot...
...end of the "Index" is a complete programme of the 250 anniversary exercises, giving the names of the marshals, and those upon whom honorary degrees were conferred...
...learned, and by the death of his sisters, Greenleaf acquired their property, the exact amount of which is not known, but which made him a rich man. In 1879 Mr. Greenleaf moved from Quincy to Boston, where he took up his residence on Waltham St., in the South End. He lived in the most frugal parsimonious manner, denying himself many of the common luxuries of life, and might almost be called a miser, were not the purpose of his saving so noble. Peculiar in habits and in dress, and so frugal in the midst of his wealth...
...mighty straining, and in two or three seconds the old ribbon showed to the advantage of Harvard; then it wavered, and as Columbia "heaved" it started to the blue side of the line. There was a chorus of orthographic shouts, but the red ribbon paused at the end of the first two inches, and immediately travelled back toward the crimson end of the rope, at the end of the first minute Harvard had the advantage by four inches. There were three heaves during the next minute, in which Harvard gained two inches more. The Columbia men were tugging manfully...