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Instead of claiming the default the CRIMSON team, with becoming patience, has consented to hold off until Saturday at 1.30. Fortified by the Dutch courage brought over from Amsterdam in the historic sideboard the nephews of the Stork will then marshal their weak-kneed forces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Interment Postponed Till Tomorrow | 2/25/1910 | See Source »

...religion of Harvard is not paraded. There are, to be sure, always some weak-kneed men who believe they are religious because they are sentimental and who wish to have their emotions appreciated, but the spirit of Harvard is not favorable to the increase of such men. As it is not forced upon students, religion is, as a rule, so healthy as to be unconscious of itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/18/1894 | See Source »

Independent of pile support, the somers supporting each platform, if properly braced to posts of building, and carried into and bolted to girder inside of same-said girder being properly kneed and bolted to posts-accident could not have happened. From further examination it appears, from drawing submitted, that the 3x10 plank that was shouldered into pile and bolted to same, and carried up under 8x10 somer and toe nailed to same, assisted the downfall as soon as any settlement took place, or the washing away of the mud of embankment around and about piles under same. The manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOAT-HOUSE ACCIDENT. | 11/26/1883 | See Source »

...INTELLECTUAL.Phenomena. - Pattern ordinarily plain. Color usually black; if any mixture, few spots of white lost in general darkness. Rather tight fit. Invariably too short. Always kneed to extraordinary degree. General flavor of Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KNEMIDOLOGY. | 6/4/1875 | See Source »

...SCRUBBY.Phenomena. - Pattern generally plain. Color light, - in extreme cases, canary or lavender. Smaller at knee than at either hip or ankle. Occasionally flowing over large part of boot. Somewhat kneed. Always shabby. Badly worn, in every sense. General flavor of Oak Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KNEMIDOLOGY. | 6/4/1875 | See Source »

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