Word: falle
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Senior crew for the fall races will probably be as follows: Wheeler (stroke), Harding, Goodrich, Silshee, Burry, Dana...
...Harvard Eleven has made its appearance this fall, notwithstanding the anticlimax of last spring; and the indications are that it will be the best Eleven that Harvard has ever had. It was soundly beaten by the Walthams in the spring, but the events of the summer have shown that it was the closest game that any Massachusetts Club has played with...
Loose thinking upon many subjects is one of the earliest symptoms of Sir Galahad's fall. So many of his boyish beliefs in things both natural and spiritual have to be abandoned as no longer tenable in the clear light of reason, that our knight gets very dainty about defending anything old at all. The argument of a laugh is not easily answerable in college society. It is, moreover, easier to profess pity for blind bigotry than to reason honestly. And students are proverbially lazy...
...strength of one another's arms, and upon the rather noisy demonstration of whose emotions the partial proctor gazed without a thought of publics or of suspensions, but with a sigh that by his unnatural employment he had cut himself adrift from all who had any right to fall upon his neck and greet him - hic - dear old fellow; the same old dinner-procession, whose dignified, slow-moving head gave no indication of the riotous life displayed by its swaying tail; and finally, the ancient scholar was there, who every year nobly refuses his dinner, that he may spend...
...merited any general censure in this regard is, the orator had no occasion to complain for himself; the earnest attention his thoughts received and the general commendation afterwards given to them proving well enough that, if precepts are more eagerly inculcated by younger men, from no lips do they fall with a deeper impression than from those of the venerable statesman...