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Word: lays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last year. This is not only mortifying, but serious. A winning crew costs just as much as a losing and one needs just as many funds to carry it through its season. If the men do not respond promptly and generously to the needs of the crew, they will lay themselves and the college open to the disgraceful charge of unpardonable disloyalty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/26/1892 | See Source »

...which the games are held, provides definitely for the date of the games, by saying that "the annual contest shall be held on the afternoon, two weeks before the last Saturday in May," thereby setting the games for this year on May 14. With the date thus fixed it lay with the Yale to choose a place. As the meeting was held in secret, nothing definite can be said, but we are given to understand that Harvard was willing to accept any grounds which Yale should name. What Mr. Whitney can find unsportsmanlike in this, it is hard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/4/1892 | See Source »

...used very generally, where the mud is allowed full license, unprotected. Such paths as those leading from University towards the gymnasium, and especially that from the east end of Grays to Massachusetts, are very convenient, and even more muddy. If it is too late in the season to lay boards, or if lumber is unattainable, ashes form a very good substitute, as is shown in the condition of the path from Thayer to Holden Chapel. A little judicious application of ashes to the present canal-like walks, would not only satisfy the feelings of the masses, but would add materially...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/28/1892 | See Source »

...University Athletic Club of New York intends to spend about $8,000 in repairing the old Racquet building, in addition to what the owner will lay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/26/1892 | See Source »

...last speaker of the evening was F. H. Wood '93. He devoted himself to a general account of the present situation in Heathen lands and closed by urging all Harvard men seriously to consider where their duty lay and how they could best fulfill their earthly mission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Y. M. C. A. | 3/25/1892 | See Source »

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