Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Captain Winslow has inaugurated the following rules for practice for the candidates for the nine: Every morning they will meet in front of Matthews at 7.45, and take a short walk before breakfast. During the forenoon they will go out into the field in squads of three or four, and practise batting for an hour. In the afternoon they will practise together for about 2 1-2 hours...
...general effect produced by the book is thoroughly pleasing, and the story will easily take a foremost place among the best romances of late years. We believe that "The Duchess Amelia" places Mr. Wendell in the front rank of our younger authors. No work that has come before our notice of late has given more promise, or shown more strength than this latest addition to American fiction...
...club of ten or twelve can be accommodated with board, and a large front dining-room at Mrs. J. M. Mooney's, 5 Linden Street...
...freshmen cannot be blamed for their exultant feelings over their well earned victory in the tug-of-war contest, nor for their desire to celebrate it in some fitting way; but the needless destruction of private property in the shape of front gates, is inexcusable, and deserving of the severest censure, tending as it does to bring the college into disrepute among the good citizens of Cambridge. We sincerely hope that nothing of this kind will take place again. We would also inform the freshmen that there is a college rule forbidding the kindling of bon-fires within the yard...
...lasted for a half hour or more. After they could shout no longer by reason of hoarseness and loss of wind caused by the blowing of their infernal horns, the freshmen began to raid grocers' back-yards for fuel for a bonfire. A hugh pile was soon collected in front of University, and quickly kindled. As soon, however, as the wood was fairly burning, the nightwatchman appeared on the scene with buckets of water and nearly extinguished the fire. but eighty-eight, nothing daunted, poured on kerosene, and, when the watchman returned to the basement of University to fill...