Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inches. Mitchell, Harvard, '83, was third in his trial heat. The games were on the whole highly successful, and Harvard may be congratulated on winning 5 first prizes, and 3 second; Columbia being second with 4 first prizes and 7 second; Lehigh third, with 2 first; Princeton fourth, with 1 first, and 2 second; Yale and University of Penn., tied for fifth place with 1 first and 1 second each; Stevens seventh with 1 first, and Dartmouth eighth with 1 second prize...
...regret that the associate press have so grossly misrepresented the late disturbance at Exeter. The Exonian gives, in substance, the following account: About one-fourth of the whole number of students in the Academy, wishing to express their disapproval of the action of the Faculty in removing two young men from the Academy, and in expelling one more of their number, went around to the professors' houses at night and gave a tin-horn serenade. After the serenade some persons who probably were not in the Academy went to the houses of two of the professors and broke some glass...
Just then I saw an old man showing some invention of his in a corner of the room. "That is Fourth Dimension, our greatest philosopher. He is the inventor of the process by which a wooden box may be turned inside out. He is showing his latest discovery." I approached him to see the novelty, when behold! it was my mathematical motor! "Thief," I cried, "that invention is mine! "Snatching it from his hand, I was about to hide it from the spectators, when it started off, and, taking me with it, suddenly landed me unhurt at home...
...somewhat peculiar construction. The writer begins by enumerating some of the features of spring, and in the first three stanzas rolls up a ponderous compound subject, containing, among other things, a relative clause attached to a relative clause, but as yet brings in no predicate; in the fourth stanza he takes a fresh start and sums up the long subject, - still no predicate; here he evidently gives up the idea of getting in that predicate at all, for, putting a semicolon at the end of the fourth stanza, he takes another new start in the fifth, and the rest...
...wish to call the attention of our subscribers to the fact that the Echo has begun the publication of its fourth volume, and we hope that its call for additional subscribers will be promptly responded to. We should be at a great loss if all the daily news, which the Echo gives so well, were to be discontinued, especially when we reflect on the amount of trouble that is saved us, by its publishing all the bulletin board notices for the day. Therefore we extend our good wishes to the Echo and hope that its days may be long...