Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Stoops to Conquer" are at variance with one another. Some praise her acting in the highest terms, others pronounce it "fair" for a novice, (rather cautious) and others, still, are very condemnatory. It is said that the Prince of Wales was quite delighted with the acting of "the Jersey lily...
...sacred precincts of Novel Harbor. Nor has he any of that immature maturity, that attempted sophistication, which marks the sons of freedom's namesake. He has none of that tendency to regard the earth as one huge football, which is the mote that dims the eyes of the Jersey princes. But it avails little to say what a man is not. In an infinity we cannot use elimination; what is more to the point, when we are on a special subject, we must not generalize. As we have already said, the Harvard man has no distinctive characteristics in the sense...
...Harvard vs. Princeton, at Jersey City...