Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...club was allowed to die out owing to the rarity of the meetings and the club itself became practically a thing of the past. This year a few of the old members of the club, who still retain an interest in its success, tried to revive it, but thus far their efforts have been unavailing. Steps should be taken at once by those of the old members who still feel an interest in the study of dramatic expression and desire a higher course of training than that afforded by the elementary courses in elocution, to recognize and restore the club...
...very quiet life, rarely mingling in society, but spending his time in study and in the cultivation of his garden. He was very poor, but his father and his aunt, Mrs. Daniel Greenleaf, were people of means. At their death he received a small fortune of $40,000, as far as can be learned, and by the death of his sisters, Greenleaf acquired their property, the exact amount of which is not known, but which made him a rich man. In 1879 Mr. Greenleaf moved from Quincy to Boston, where he took up his residence on Waltham...
Gentle reader, do not understand that we would discourage cleanliness, far from it. We simply wish to warn these bath-room monopolists of the wrath to come, if they persist in their greedy ways. However, we have not the heart to deprive them altogether of a pleasure apparently so much sought by them. We would suggest that they petition for the use of the tubs all night; and then they may sit and soak in peace, undisturbed by the maledictions of the men waiting without...
Five men have so far presented themselves as candidates for the Yale freshmen crew...
...life interest, and that others desire to use it as well as he, the whole matter will be simplified and the trouble abated. It is this thoughtlessness, and only thoughtlessness, without question, which causes all the trouble. A little more thought and a little less selfishness will result in far more satisfactory results to all. But because this subject is hackneyed no man has a right in common justice to neglect the matter...