Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR HERALD: Oh, goodness! I'm in awful trouble, and all on account of you, too. Do you know that my last letter to you has got me in an awful fix. I'll never, never write to a newspaper again. Oh, how the Miscellany did give it to me, and to you, too. Of course they don't know for sure that it was I who wrote the letter, but almost every one shows by their actions that they think I am the guilty one. I felt so bad after reading the article in this month's Miscellany that...
...throughout the country. The annual tournament of the National La Crosse Association, for which clubs from Boston, Baltimore, Louisville, New York, Harvard, Princeton and New York University are expected to enter, will probably be held some time in June. The annual meeting of the association on May 6 will fix the date. The dates of the college championship games are as follows: May 3, on New York polo grounds, Columbia vs. New York University; May 6, Columbia vs. Harvard, in Cambridge; May 13, Princeton vs. New York University, at Princeton; May 20, Harvard vs. Princeton, at Cambridge. Yale proposes...
...star-route cases have been called to fix the date of final hearing...
...board shall hold regular meetings and keep records of the same, and it shall be its duty to regulate the conduct of the business of the society; to prescribe the methods of keeping its accounts and auditing them, and to appoint, remove and fix the pay of the superintendent and his assistants, and in general to supervise and control the operations of the society, and to pass and publish suitable rules defining its methods...
...public mind of a vague prejudice that a college education for a business man is most often a detriment and a waste of time. The indefinite expectations placed in all graduates by other men, and the unreasonable demands made of them in return for their advantages, generally serve to fix indelibly in the public memory every record of the failure of a college-bred man, and just as much to erase every instance of success, as merely what was to be expected under the circumstances. A slightly new aspect is given to this question by an editorial article...