Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Gold best-on-record medals will be given to any one beating the best American College record at any of the events except the 1-5-mile hurdle...
...beautiful September weather made him very anxious to attempt it. I was less eager, for obvious reasons. We started off in the afternoon. Edith came to the doorway just as we took the road. We looked back, and she waved her hand at us. It was the last time - except once...
...disappearance of his room-mate - which no one has ever yet accounted for, except to suppose that the poor fellow met an accidental death on the night in question - worked upon him in such a manner that the very sad result ensued. I see by reading his account of the matter that, with the wonderful precision and clearness which insanity sometimes attains, he has given a very clear account of all that happened up to the time of that terrible outbreak on Red Hill. There he burst forth a raving madman. What might have happened had not two other pedestrians...
...bridge of one's nose. The ordinary Sophomore would, at this point, have bid a tearful adieu to so questionable a form of amusement, court-plastered his nose, and forthwith presented at No. 5 a petition to be excused from giving any further attention to college duties, except tennis and the Greek play...
...slowly and painfully began the circuit of the hall. Round and round I went, oft diving into the railing, every few minutes affectionately embracing a post or two, dismounting at the most unexpected moments, and in the most unprecedented manner, and alighting on every conceivable part of my body, except on my feet; occasionally hurled with prodigious velocity into the ceiling, and again cleaving great furrows in the floor; sometimes riding the bicycle, sometimes the bicycle riding me; and once, after a brief but interesting struggle, I found myself, by a succession of wonderful convolutions, so intricately interwoven with...