Word: exists
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Association wished to introduce by its own efforts into our college sports a thoroughly gentlemanly, healthful game, and as such the game is entitled to a fair trial. The language of the Advocate in this matter seems unnecessarily severe, and is calculated to raise antagonistic feelings which should never exist among fellow-students...
...little change: an old ape and his daughter have just come from the South. No one knows more of them than that he is a celebrated philosopher. The girl is pretty enough, but insignificant. There is no force in her, and beauty of the highest type cannot exist without force. But, speaking of them, I remember that they have not yet seen me; I must step in a moment, to countenance their arrival. Good-evening...
...from an evening party. Tootsy had been there, and they had had a long interview. All at length was settled. He and Tootsy were going to elope! They had been growing more and more fond of each other as their acquaintance ripened, and had finally found they could not exist apart...
...subject at once useful and interesting"? No! I won't take a ticket, and I won't let any one else, and I'm going to prosecute you and the Philosophical Club and the Rum Club and the Society of Naturals. It's shameful that such organizations should exist! They drive me crazy! I've been to readings, concerts, lectures, and consultations in Sever, Harvard, Boylston, and University for five months now, and the end must be near. What man has done man can (en)du(re). But the pitcher may go to the bat once too often...
...could have been applied better. In thus condemning too enthusiastic praise, we do not in any way favor the opposite extreme, discouragement being to our mind quite as undesirable; but if, in talking to and of our teams, we should be willing to acknowledge their short comings when they exist, and not to give their existing good points more praise than they deserve, it seems to us we should be adopting the right method to put our athletics on a firm and lasting basis...