Word: fastings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...being very impressionable. On cutting further, streaks of a simple fluid were discovered, coursing towards the arteries. This phenomenon occasioned much dispute for a time, but it was finally held to be the remains of a flood of religious sentiment, more prominent in boys of tender years, and now fast disappearing. A large swelling, undoubtedly due to love for Simpel's eldest cousin (a young lady of twenty-five), gave evidence of the unfortunate youth's affectionate nature. A trace of respect for college rule and officers was still visible. The right arm was distorted, owing to the weight...
...professional coached the Nine during their winter training in the Gymnasium? If any, were his services paid? Did or did not professionals play on the Harvard Nine in the game with the Worcesters, Fast Day, and against the Bostons, April 10? If they did, were they paid? Out of a University of thirteen hundred students, could no players be found to take the places made vacant by the illness of two of the regular Nine? Are there to be any regular substitutes from the men in College, or is the Nine dependent upon outsiders...
...craft will be so arranged that the machinery can be controlled from the standing room forward or aft, and the direction can be changed without swinging round, as she will be sharp at both ends. The Company guarantee a light boat, that will run as fast as an eight can row and that will not make a wake which will interfere with the shells...
There is a romantic and highly probable tale in the Columbia Spectator about a bicyclist who, meeting a young woman running away from home to be married, put her on the steps of his machine, and raced with her father and a fast horse for six miles, and beat. The Acta, usually the best of our exchanges, has nothing of any interest this week, except another romantic and extremely slangy story, "A Land Cruise," which has run through several numbers, and promises to go on indefinitely...
...Fast swooping down I feel the bird of doom...