Word: gets
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...last moment we hear with pleasure that the Athletic Association will hold a meeting on Friday afternoon, May 24, at Beacon Park. Sufficient time is given to enable men to train well and get into good condition; and since the prizes are to be of value, we hope to see the events performed creditably. As the Athletic Association desires to be represented at the Intercollegiate games at Mott Haven on May 18, there will be trial-races on May 16 at Beacon Park to select those who will be sent on to represent the College. For further particulars we refer...
...strength. Because it is played by ladies, the uninitiated (and your correspondent is apparently among the number) suppose it to belong to the genus croquet. Whoever wishes to remove this impression has only to try a game on the next hot day, and see whether he does not get as much exercise as a strong, healthy man requires. Any form of outdoor exercise can be taken easily; rowing itself, if one rows slowly enough, is anything but hard work; but just as a severe pull on the river is violent exercise, so is a good game of lawn-tennis...
...with his complaints every day since the announcement of the change, and has asked us to write an editorial on the subject. He has brought forward all the arguments used of old against such change, and he insists most vehemently on the point that, to force a man to get up and breakfast between the hours of a quarter past seven and half past eight, is manifestly a return to those barbarous customs which he, for one, has always thought it his duty to oppose. Undoubtedly to one accustomed, as he has always been, to Eastern luxury, there is something...
...What did you get...
...sighs he, "how I wish that I, too, might get a low mark; it's so popular, you know. I tried it this time, - I really...