Word: exception
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...where I saw the old Harvard College on fire, and it was with the utmost difficulty they savd the other Buildings. Stoughton was on fire an Hour, Massachusetts catched in three places, and Hollis Hall is burnt much at the Southwest corner, there was nothing saved in old College except a bed or two, the whole Library, except some books lent out and Mr. Hollis's last donation, were demolished, the whole apparatus. Mrs. Hancock who lodgd out on account of the storm lost everything except the cloths she had on, this is a most terrible accident, this Library...
Lowest on the scale are books full of copied notes, written up hurriedly from the books of a large circle of friends. They are insignificant, and uncharacteristic except in so far as they show the slinking habits of the owner. Next comes the note-book in flexible covers, bearing generally some such printed legend as the "Students Own Blank Book." These are used by men who take few and careless notes, and after a few days they get the air of a grocery order book. Above these rank the larger stiff covered note-books of all shapes and sizes...
...Thayer, '88, withdrew. Coolidge was therefore given abye. The judges here announced a mistake in the winner of the first bout, and after another round the winner was announced, amid the mingled cheers and groans of the spectators, as Mr. Whitelaw, who would have been declared winner at first except for a confusion of names by the judges...
...officers of this meeting were the same as at the first, except that Mr. Joseph Lee took the place of Mr. Robert Bacon as one of the judges of sparring...
...these benches on the floor is indeed praiseworthy; but the result is very sad, for these benches and their occupants obstruct the view of nearly half the audience. The wrestling of last Saturday, for example, could not be seen by those seated in the south end of the gymnasium, except from a few of the highest seats...