Word: finds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...there has been some difference of opinion in regard to the boundaries of the different Boat-Clubs, we have consulted the books, and find the boundaries laid down as follows...
...devoutly thankful for, - my room has not been swept this fall. O, how I look back to those sweeping days of last year; how. I used to come to my room some cold day in January with a friend to have a chat before the fire, and find the door and windows wide open, and hear a voice come from out of the dust, saying, "I'll be through directly, sir," and she generally was. She succeeded admirably in removing the dust from the carpet and lodging it on the pictures and furniture, from which at the next dusting...
...Record we find the following bit of news: "Novel methods of hazing at Harvard. One is to make a Freshman crawl on his hands and knees over three hundred and twenty flagging-stones, and mark each one with chalk." The exchange column of the Record is somewhat scurrilous...
...confidently promise that his sole idea will be the conscientious discharge of the responsible duties committed to his charge. He believes in having only those men in the boat who are (to use his own words) "heart and soul in the crew," and he will endeavor to find five men in the University who have, beside the requisite amount of muscle, a sufficiently high idea of the trust confided to them to exert themselves to their utmost both before and during the race...
...last word of the sentence, "represented,"* which occurs twice in the letter with quotation-marks and once without, is rather interesting as a puzzle to find out what may be the peculiar significance of the marks in one place and their omission in another...