Word: getting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...game was for two three quarters of an hour, and during all of that time Yale did not get the ball past our half-backs. Yale appeared to be rather weak in passing the ball, and not thoroughly acquainted with the rules, but nevertheless made some fine plays...
...Cornell Review thinks that "without immutable sequence we could know nothing." The problem is to get rid of immutable sequence, and until it is solved we will have to be content with our present imperfect knowledge...
...passed me by in collecting the fares. Usually I could not be better pleased than by cheating the conductor; but upon this occasion I stepped up and gave him my ticket. A Sophomore called out aloud, "Freshman." A mucker whispered audibly, "Guess he stole it, so anxious to get rid of it." But I did not care what a Sophomore or a mucker thought. I was rather pleased that such characters had so poor an opinion of me. I was cordially received by the family where I called. I aired some of my newly acquired philosophical knowledge to two young...
...seems to us, than is the case with the average undergraduate of flesh and blood. Notwithstanding what we have said of the book, it is readable, and its faults are amusing. We advise those who want only to be entertained to read it, but we trust strangers anxious to get an idea of Harvard will not pin their faith to any great extent upon this production...
...Hollo, old boy," broke in a familiar voice, "I've got back. Lost my latch-key and could n't get into the room. Thought I should probably find you here...