Word: got
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Transcript is responsible for the statement that "Yale has got the Smithsonian Institution Government fixed again in her interest as against Harvard's." What this dark hint may mean we cannot fathom. That there has been any active contest between the scientific professors of Yale and of Harvard for the control of the Smithsonian Institute, as this item would imply, is certainly a matter of news to the majority. Why Harvard should wish such control it is not easy to see. No, the Transcript is engaged in a very reprehensible business in fomenting jealousy between Yale and Harvard by dropping...
...broader so as to take in Oxford and Cambridge, and institutions of learning in the moon and other planets, so as to be able to claim the championship of the solar system, which is more honorable than a mere American championship, and quite as easy if championship can be got without beating anybody. Still, merely as a matter of taste, perhaps it would be as well to beat somebody before claiming the championship. [Times...
...village was actually in a state of siege during two hours on account of a melee between these gentlemen and their adherents : the police being only with the greatest difficulty able to quell the riot. But although battue shooting and pigeon slaying have been developed since then, we have got to be much more humane with regard to our foot-ball, and a had hack now is an exceptional circumstance. The game in fact-whether Rugby or Association-has undergone a complete metamorphosis. "Passing" the ball was a practice utterly unknown ; the art of "packing" a scrimmage...
...peculiar boon to scholars and must occupy a place with the glossaries of Ducange and Charpentier." In 1860 he received the appointment to the professorship of Ancient, Byzantine, and Modern Greek which he held until his death. He again visited Greece in 1860. In 1870 he got out a subscription edition of his 'Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods.' It is a work of authority still in use, and many inquiries for it in recent years have been referred to the list of subscribers in the hope that thus might be discovered a copy left, perhaps by death...
...result of this encounter, turpe solum tetigere mento. Even the decorous Charles Greville tells us how, after dinning at White's, he had a spar with some bobbies in the Haymarket, and scampered home, leaving his hat in their possession, when they had sprung their rattle and got reinforcements. These were discreditable traits in English manners. They were always incomprehensible to foreigners, though foreigners generally had, and still have, much more cause to hate their police than we ours. The undergraduates who were fined ten pounds may congratulate themselves that they were not Parisian students in the Latin Quarter...