Word: leveret
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...indeed the beloved leveret will frequent his castle no more, the university has suffered an irreplaceable loss. A nondescript jackrabbit might satisfy the vulgar and undiscriminating, but only the original leporine monarch or his direct descendant could command the loyalty of the legitimists...
Earle Sande, who has been called, with some justice, the greatest of living jockeys, rode in front of the stands at the opening of the Jamaica Track. Metropolitan racegoers, who beheld him then for the first time since the August day when he crumpled, limp as a leveret, from his mount at Saratoga, rose shouting to welcome him. Amid wilder shouting, he rode J. S. Ward's Worthmore, pulled him over the line to win by the width of a lead pencil from H. P. Whitney's Noah in the famed Paumonok Handicap...
Massachusetts Hall was started in 1718 and finished in 1720. The Province of Massachusetts heeded the repeated pleas of President John Leveret of Harvard for another building and appropriated 3,500 pounds to be used to erect "a fair and goodly house of brick." The province was poor in those days, and this was considered a magnificent sum. The building is indeed "a fair and goodly house." Its substantial timbers and brick have stood 200 years of wear and tear...
...Haas 2G, of Scranton, Pa., in Botany Norris Folger Hall 4G, of Cambridge, Chemistry; Harold Calvin Marston Morse 3G, of Waterville, Me., in mathematics Hyder Edward Rollins 2G, of Asperment, Tex., in Modern Languages; Harold St. John 3G, of Philadelphia, Pa., in Botany Ray Ethan Torrey 2G, of North Leveret in Botany; Arthur Calvin Walton 2G, of Chicago, Ill., in Zoology; John Henry Williams 2G, of North Adams, in Economics...
...today. The services will be conducted by Dr. S. M. Crothers and Rev. Edward Hall of Cambridge. The following men will act as pall-bearers: President Eliot, Dr. H. P. Walcott, Professor J. B. Ames, Judge Jeremiah Smith, Mr. F. L. Thorndike, Mr. W. R. Ware, Mr. G. V. Leveret, Dr. J. L. Hildreth...