Word: layed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...quarter to half a mile away from him. Rupert made all the signals of distress that he could in his exhausted condition and Captain Snow saw them. But the Ridgeway had a deck load of empty barrels which the captain says would have been jeopardized if he attempted to lay to and lower a boat. And he passed on without any attempt to render assistance. Within a mile and a half of the rock upon which Rupert stood is a light ship attached to which is a life boat with a life saving crew If Captain Snow had stopped...
...might be misinterpreted. In the death of Prof. Jacquinot, the college has lost an instructor, whom it will be difficult to replace. Particularly is this the case with French 4, a course which he created and in which he was especially interested. The peculiar merit of his teaching lay in the fact that he was so wrapped up in his subject that he underestimated the importance of everything else...
...these misfortunes were not enough, at the very beginning of the season most of the best players in the nine were successively maimed and prevented from playing, so that of the men who now constitute the nine all but three, Smith, Beaman and Lovering, have been obliged to lay off one or more games. This was, of course, fatal to systematic practice, but its bad effect has not been so marked as would naturally have been expected...
...weakly give their consent to the importunities of their sons, and then complain that we have trained them in idleness. The public press, as a whole, are telling the colleges very plainly that they are going to excess in sports. Let them encourage those colleges that are seeking to lay restraints on the evil. Some colleges are refusing to join in the exertions we are making, not to stop sports, but to keep them within due bounds. These colleges may gain the championship in games, but let the public know that it is not to their credit...
...senior class dinner will take place at Young's Hotel, Boston, on the evening of Monday, June 25th. Early notice is thus given that as many men as possible may lay their plans so as to be present...