Word: falling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...general health in college was thirty per cent better last term than in the fall term a year...
Comes through the air with a rippling fall...
...book before quoted, a consolation of the dum vivimus vivamus sort, which I offer as a comfort to any Senior who is sorrowing that he must so soon depart this collegiate life: "Happy Senior! enjoy these your halcyon days while you may; for great will be the fall from your pinnacle of glory, when after Commencement you go forth into the great world to earn your first dollar, and find that even the boy who dusts the office and kindles the fire and runs of errands is for the time at least more valued and more valuable than you; since...
...special effort is made, it will be impossible to order more than one racing-boat; and although it is desirable to get a boat from England, the risk in bringing it over is so great that the experiment will not be made unless there is something else to fall back on in case it should be injured. If a boat could be ordered in England and paid for from some outside source, a boat could be built here, - using the English shell, to a certain extent, as a model, - and the race would then be rowed in whichever proved...
...tear-drops fall for my sake...