Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...from last year. A few quiet men are seen either idling, or paying the penance of previous injudicious idling, but the majority are chiefly occupied with superintending the movements of the "blameless Ethiopian" moving furniture from last year's room. There has been, of course, the usual amount of hand-shaking among faultlessly dressed young fellows, the usual inquiries and responses as to the manner of spending the summer vacation. Once more, as usual, the gawky Freshman and the self-important Senior are seen in our midst. There are probably, as there always have been, and will be, the usual...
...showing by their preliminary practice the results of careful work, and vigorous determination to win or die hard. But great are the uncertainties of base-ball! Yale entered the contest confident of victory; a confidence theoretically well founded, but practically disastrous to reputation and pocket. Harvard, on the other hand, had learned by bitter experience the danger of excessive confidence, and knew that the game could alone be won by steady, persistent work. This feeling, with the added inspiration of surroundings, time, and place, gave our fellows an impetus toward success that was irresistible, and that swept their opponents into...
...PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN, - You will bear me witness that I am not in the habit of reading a speech at the Commencement dinner; but on this exceptional occasion I propose to read part of an appropriate address which I have found written for me by another hand...
...protested, but it was of no avail. The book was forced upon me, and I was compelled to stumble through first the scanning and then the translation of an ode or two. Mr. Archibald held his watch open in his hand...
...left there with my book in my hand. I would not go, they might have to send for a doctor. I took up the book again: "That was not right, was it?" I thought. '"Pro qua' means, 'for whom,' and not 'on which account'; but I have made worse mistakes than that, and he did not notice it either...