Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...failed to budge, and then it just peered out of the snap on the Columbia side. At the end of the first minute Columbia had just about half an inch, and, although the City of New York's boys pulled sturdily, and their friends shouted for them unremittingly, the fifth minute ended with the Columbias 11 inches to the better...
...writing rather packing in moral tone. A story with a moral tacked on the end is usually tiresome, a story like "Violin" without a moral scattered through it deserves tile praise. A collection of six daily themes selected from English XII. forms a pleasant innovation. The first and the fifth are particularly clear...
...fifth lecture of the series was delivered last night before the usual large audience attracted to Sanders Theatre on these occasions. The subject was Famous Public Gardens in Rome...
...great extent, but an hour spent informally with these men in their rooms, is of infinitely greater pleasure and value. We would add, also, that this evening will be the last evening at hone with Dr. Brooks as the time of his pastorate here ends on the fifth. We have already been deprived of one of his "at homes" by the Thanksgiving vacation...
...unreservedly awarded the championship to Yale. A number of witnesses were examined in the course of the convention and the following gentlemen acted as arbitrators: Messrs. Appleton and Brooks of Harvard, Stevens of Wesleyan, Posey and Young of the University of Pennsylvania. The halls of the Fifth Avenue Hotel were alive until a late hour with students discussing the whole matter, which will afford the Yale News and the Princetonian such unlimited material for the remaining months of the year...