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Word: late (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Many of the balls in the bowling alley have been broken of late, owing to the rough usage they have to undergo from fellows who enjoy bowling merely for the sake of seeing how swiftly they can send the ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/26/1887 | See Source »

...that of any other college; why, then, should we not adopt this plan also? It certainly would be a very enjoyable feature, and would add much to the pleasure of the meetings. We hear from our brass band only too seldom. It is true that we may be rather late in offering this suggestion; yet we hope that if the matter is favorably received by the members of the band, sufficient time is left for practice before the winter meetings. If not, let us hope that next year the matter may be taken in hand at a sufficiently early date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/26/1887 | See Source »

...which was distasteful to some, and it needed the stimulus of a vigorous rival. With the purpose of organizing such a rival, a petition was circulated in 1867, which, with the names of half the class thereon, was presented to and approved by the faculty. As it was too late in the year to make any more progress in the matter, the business was put off until the following autumn, at which time the petitioners assembled in Massachusetts Hall and proceeded to the election of officers and the drafting of a constitution. The success of the new society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Societies. | 2/25/1887 | See Source »

...false and unsafe feeling, and one that in the end is bound to affect us in an unfavorable way, both ourselves personally, as members of Yale University, and at the hands of other colleges with whom we have dealings. This idea has been put forward so much in the late discussion of the base-ball question that it has become quite common for certain men to express the unqualified opinion that the whole scheme is one intended solely for the benefit of some person or persons remote from New Haven. For the sake of a large majority, however, who believe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/22/1887 | See Source »

...Isaac H. Bromley, '55: "The Last Half Mile," responded to by Almet F. Jenks, '75; "The Sons of Yale," responded to by E. G. Mason, '60; and "Would-be Oarsmen," responded to by Watson R. Sperry, '71. Hon. Henry E. Howland presided, and the dinner broke up at a late - or rather early hour, amid ringing cheers for Bob. Cook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Dinner Given to Bob Cook. | 2/21/1887 | See Source »

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