Word: kills
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Advocate recommends that their eleven henceforth play the "Yale game." The "Yale game," so far as we can make out from reports of the games recently played, consists in strict adherence to the following rule : "Kill only when absolutely necessary ; in ordinary cases mutilate." - [Argonaut...
...case of the United States against "Bill" Jones, who is charged with attempting to kill Guiteau by shooting at him, was called in the Criminal Court at Washington yesterday...
...scandal they thought would be caused by the spectacle of his going out to Harvard College on commencement day to receive his LL. D., followed by a roaring mob of vicious and illiterate followers. Many old Bostonians have felt as if this scene, if they ever beheld it, would kill them. They will now feel easier, for they see that, if elected, his appearance at the old university will be simply the triumph of a cultured conscience over the temptations and trials of American life and of the application to public affairs by an elderly lawyer and soldier...
...YORK, June 20, 1882. The session at Columbia has now closed, and nothing remains for the students to do but go to New London to cheer up the crew. Fortunately the apathy which at one time seemed about to kill all our boating and athletic prospects, by hard work on the part of a certain few, was driven...
...from a "mission," excepting perhaps some choice interpolations of his own derived from the affecting story of Cinderella and her slipper, and from some confused tales of Greek mythology. On the question of suicide John has a very striking and convincing theory. "It is two toimes as bad to kill yourself," says he, "as to kill any outher mon. If you kill any outher mon, you can repint, but you can never repint whin you have killed yoursilf." John says there was once a man here at Harvard who tried to make people think that men came from monkeys. "What...