Word: go
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Errand boys go to Boston twice a day, and now that the rush of business is over, orders for any books not in stock will receive special attention...
...gratifying to see so much interest evinced in the work of the team, but when this interest takes the form of hindering the men at their work, as in this case it does, it ought to be stopped. The passages are often so crowded that men wishing to go from one side of the hall to the other, find it impossible, and in spite of the fact that the crowd is often cleared away by the officers of the gymnasium it collects again a most immediately. Of course this is all due to the thought lessness...
...popular literature or popular epics, as they are sometimes called, go back to the songs of the people. In fact these are their history. The "Nibelungen Leid" and "Gotterdammerung," the principal poems are based on popular songs. The "Nibelungen" contains thirty-eight adventures corresponding to cantos, arranged in 2000 stanzes or verses. Each verse is divided into two parts, the second part being one accent longer than the first...
...Springfield has been very unsatisfactory. Instead of reserving specified seats, an enormous number of tickets has been issued admitting the holder to the grand stand. The result is that the very object for which seats are reserved is not accomplished, and purchasers of the tickets will have to go as early to get good seats as though they had not paid an extra price. The difficulty is made more by the ease with which the tickets may be counterfeited. Indeed, it is reported that counterfeits have already appeared. If it is not too late some effort should be made...
...present interest here is football. The letters have just been received from the Harvard management protesting fifteen men, among them some who have not been in Princeton this year. The protests themselves are harmless, of course, but Harvard's willingness to descend to such low-down measures, thus to go beyond all limits with the hope of crippling the Princeton eleven, has caused much comment here, which is not calculated to flatter Harvard's athletic spirit. In spite of all efforts to prevent her, Princeton will send an eleven to Harvard next Saturday which, although it may not be such...