Word: fell
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...better part of valor," rode away. To the right of the meeting-house are the stone steps down which Putnam rode. To the left is the road along which the British dragged their cannon after firing a random shot at the retreating hero. This ball, I was informed, fell on the road, and with half-spent force was rolling along, when a farmer spied it, and, thinking it might be running away from somebody, put out his foot to arrest it; the mass X velocity was too much for the farmer; the ball continued on in the "even tenor...
Slumbered the plants, the dew fell...
...where, perchance, her springy footstep fell...
...they fought and how they fell...
...another, naming the length of the session for 1875, the departments of instruction, and the instructors and lecturers engaged. Before the issue of the April circular, containing notice of the School's attempt at self-support, there had been one hundred and sixty applications; this number immediately fell to seven paying applicants. A guaranty fund of $3,000 had been raised, but this still left a probable deficit of $3,000; and a minimum of thirty paying scholars was needed. This last failure to secure funds for the School occasioned a final circular from Mr. Agassiz, the Director...