Word: layed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...report has reached us that the reason why Andover forfeited the games with our eleven lay in the fact that she was persuaded by certain friends that the Harvard eleven favored Exeter and would smash the life out of Andover in order to give the former school a better chance in the contest with the latter. Such a report as this deserves no refutation, but the cause of it is perhaps deeper than would appear at first glance. That athletic boys are persuaded to renounce their choice in choosing a college is well known, but this means appears...
...fully equal to the first issue. The editorials are written in a manly, determined spirit, and treat the subjects of which they speak in a manner that evinces careful thought and deliberation. The merits of "Retrospect" are confined to the orthography of the dialect, and the poem can lay little claim to literary beauty. Quite different from this is "Acheron," a pretty simile in graceful, poetic language. The writer of "Ce Qu 'On Dit Et La Verite" shows considerable imagination and writes in a lively, entertaining style, which would be none the worse for a little more polish and elegance...
DEAR SIR: The Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Preachers to the University for the year 1886-87 wishes to lay before the parents and friends of the students of the University some report of their undertaking during the past year...
Will you kindly lay this explanation before your readers...
...first game with Yale of last year. It is all the more disheartening, because little or almost nothing, can be said in apology of it. As was the case in our first championship game, wretched base running and one or two costly errors lost us the game. The fault lay not so much with the coachers as with the base runners. True, the visitors' catcher was a hard man on whom to steal bases, but a number of our runners were very slow, and could not have handled them-selves much more awkwardly than they did, had they tried...