Word: ever
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Mock programmes are still in vogue, and "judging from the previous efforts of '79, this year they ought to be as disgusting as any ever presented...
...halls in the University of Leipzig more than two hundred students are gathered together to listen to the learned Professor Curtius, whose fame is now world-wide. Here I have repeatedly sat during the hottest days of July, when not a single one of the dozen large windows was ever opened. And there we had to sit and breathe, however much we might feel that the wise things the lecturer was saying were reaching our ears through a poisoned medium. Though an attempt was made on the part of Americans to admit the pure air, Professor Curtius was petitioned...
...brain to judge and the swiftness to execute. But there is much to praise and little to criticise in the present record of the Nine. The two games in Boston during the recess were very finely played. The last was one of the most interesting and exciting games ever played upon those grounds. By a glorious hit in the ninth inning, victory was snatched from the very jaws of defeat only to be quickly thrown back by three or four unfortunate errors. But notwithstanding their good success so far, the Nine has yet plenty of work to do. They will...
...will be found in another column, for the formation of a consolidated H. U. B. C. Next fall, if the transfer of the club property from Mr. Blakey to the students is completed, and if the arrangement proposed in this plan is carried out, a stronger boating interest, than ever might confidently be expected. Every one feels more or less imposed upon when obliged, after liberally subscribing for the crew, to pay an additional sum m order to obtain entrance to the boat-house, and yet another, and heavier, in order to enjoy the opportunity of rowing. As matters...
...WONDER if it ever occurred to any one to make a careful study of the ordinary Irishman, the kind who builds fires for his living. The specimen with which I have daily intercourse would furnish a careful student of human nature with a fund of amusement and instruction that would be inexhaustible. I ask you, my reader, to picture to yourself a man whose sole care in life, as far as it appears, is the burden of lighting sundry fires and cleaning various boots. It would seem as if this responsibility was not enough to make him absent-minded...