Word: eve
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...love and sympathy for my fellow-man. It is only the constant persecution of my brother-students that has brought me so low. Why, I even envy President Eliot's immunity from contact with the students, and think Adam must have had a jolly time until Mrs. Adam (his Eve-il genius) put in an appearance...
OXFORD has a Rifle Corps which is on the eve of dissolution. The H. R. C. should have a fellow-feeling...
...Well, I am more Sophomore than anything else, but I am a Junior and a Senior and a graduate, too. I am always a college man, and a man of the world as well; but my favorite resorts are summer watering-places and college societies. I was created when Eve was and have lived ever since, though I never grow old. I am a sort of Phoenix. My occupations are various, but at present I am stumping the State for Butler. You have never heard of me, I dare say! Pity! pity! time you did! Let me introduce myself...
...regatta; the Watkins Glen regatta comes off so short a time before Henley that it will be next to impossible for the winning crews at Watkins to enter and start at Henley. Besides, this arrogant committee reserves the right of rejecting any entry! So that a crew on the eve of the race might find itself ruled out, and no reasons assigned. Truly English love of fair-play has been sadly overpraised...
...University Reporter, from Iowa, publishes the fourth part of a poem entitled "The Tide of Time." It contains a Miltonic account of Eve's little adventure with the serpent, in four columns. We should like to quote them as a whole, but as this is impossible, refrain altogether, for fear of awakening a desire for more, which we could not gratify...