Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Harvard Nine, held subsequent to its reception, it was decided to accept the challenge, in so far as to acknowledge our desire to meet the Yale Nine in a series of games; but the fixing of the days on which each individual game shall take place was left till some future time. The custom of playing a series of games seems almost entirely to have superseded the single game of former years, and it is, I think, the only true way of testing the respective merits of the two Nines. Leaving out of the question the advantage gained...
...furnish students with portfolios at a very small price ($2.00 or $2.25), provided fifty or more portfolios are subscribed for. They will be strongly made, with cloth flaps. Their size will be 25 x 30 inches, - which size will hold the largest print. Orders for these should be left at No. 2 Holworthy, and as soon as possible. Frames for the Heliotypes can be obtained at A. B. French's, Palmer Street, between Church and Brattle Streets, Cambridge, in orders of a dozen each, at prices varying from $2.15 to $2.60 for a frame 22 x 24 inches; for frames...
...hope these lines find you as well as they have just left...
...steady streams of starving men to right and left did pour...
Being under the necessity of purchasing some coal one day, I chanced to ask him, with a slight tinge of sarcasm in my voice, how much coal he had used this winter. He replied, "I have only about half a ton left." Some time after I happened to see one of those little bills with which we are all more or less acquainted; from this I learned that he was indebted to a coal-merchant for just the above-mentioned amount, purchased at the beginning of the year. I then fully understood the import of his answer. He evinced...