Word: fall
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...father is a lawyer. When I left home last fall for college, he said: "My dear boy some time you may be in want of advice such as I cannot give you. If that is the case, go to the best lawyer in Boston and state your trouble to him. Some men, and many women, like to send their sons to parsons. But I tell you, a lawyer knows forty times as much about the world as a parson does...
...Foot-ball Club are arranging this spring the matches to be played next fall. Till then, no games will take place. The club has been able to pay not only the expenses of the last game, but also all its unpaid bills; and it thus stands now free from debt...
...would call attention to an excellent plan, which 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...
...long. Now, why cannot one of our homely poets immortalize a scene in the organ-grinder's life? Let him be pictured coming into his home, chinking the coin in his pockets, and as he enters he strikes up the "Beautiful Blue Danube," and all the children fall into a spontaneous jig that is perfectly infectious in its jollity. May there not really be such a thread of romance running through the seemingly monotonous life-tramp of the Organ-Grinder...
...good effect of the unusually long practice last fall can easily be seen this spring in the rowing, which is much better than that of a year ago; and if the crew can keep the immense advantage they have already obtained over their immediate predecessors, it will be a long step toward closing that terrible gap of June 30; but this can only be done by the greatest care and perseverance on the part of each individual in the boat. With the exception of stroke, they lack strength on the catch, and almost every man uses his arms too soon...