Word: fours
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...BOOK on Athletic Sports, of three or four hundred pages, is soon to be published at McGill University, Canada, and will find its way here about the middle of March. It is to contain a chapter on Boating, with articles from Oxford and Cambridge. Yale, also, will probably supply some information, and a letter has been received by the President of the Boat Club here asking for a contribution to the chapter from Harvard...
...bean give place to the monstrous turkey and savory viands in three courses. The tables groan under their unaccustomed burden, and the marble bust of our benefactor looks down upon the feast with an astonished but approving smile. How welcome is the after-dinner nap, undisturbed by that execrable four o'clock bell! And then, with a social game at whist in the evening, we forget that we are homeless...
...than ten ordinary men could accomplish. Among his published works may be mentioned "Twelve Lectures on Comparative Embryology," "Systeme Glaceale," "Lake Superior," "The Structure of Animal Life," "A Journey to Brazil," "Methods of Study in Natural History," "Contributions to the Natural History of the United States," - of which but four volumes have appeared, published in monographic form, - and others which want of space prevents us from mentioning. To accomplish all this, extensive journeys had to be undertaken, and Professor Agassiz travelled throughout the length and breadth of the United States, until he became almost as familiar with their broad expanse...
...dodge eminently necessary. At Freshman's suggestion sit up forty-eight hours reading diamond Tupper, take a good look at the sun, and go to see the Dean. Dean says "No," and a public for insolence; learning we want to go to Cuba, mutters "Virginius," and says "Granted." Buy four horse-pistols and some brandy. Freshman procures scissors in view of prospective locks of hair...
...Wind (blowing a gale), N. S. by W. E. Off Blackwell's Island. Cheered by resident Cubans. Run fifteen bells in four hours, and at five knots pipe to dinner. Speak a ferryboat from Holmes Hole, short of provisions; give them a barrel of salt for ballast, and two able-bodied seamen (already blind-drunk and mutinous). Toward dusk a shot across our bows from villanous-looking pilot-boat. Press on under full head of canvas and steam, - she is overhauling us, - O for night! (Sable Goddess, - Young.) At ii P. M. near enough for conversation, too near for comfort...