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Word: lies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ready to punish offenders. Eighty-seven is evidently fully as spirited as the traditional sophomore, and eighty-eight is apparently fully as ready to stand up for its rights as the average freshman class. Can it be that the millennium is approaching, when the sophomore and freshman are to lie down together, like the oft-mentioned lion and lamb? During our own first two years in college we thought that day to be far distant. Can it be that it is so near while we are yet undergraduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Conmmet. | 5/26/1885 | See Source »

...point to which we would like to call the attention of the officers of the H. A. A. It is an unfortunate fact that the spring games and the first freshman game with Yale have both been arranged for next Saturday. It is true that the fault does not lie with the officers of the H. A. A., for the date of the game with Yale has been arranged within the past two weeks; but if these two events come off at the same time, great difficulties occur: first, if the sports take precedence, the freshmen will be deprived...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/12/1885 | See Source »

...uninitiated how a base-ball score must lie ! For instance, in Saturday's game Nichols made five runs, and yet the score says that he was at the bat only four times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 4/29/1885 | See Source »

...anacolouthon. No wonder, he thinks, that so many of our colleges reject co-education. They would soon find that it was the boys who were kept home to wash the dishes, and the girls who came to college to learn how to box, make punch, and lie to the Dean. The college, of course, has a college yell, a bell ringer, and a young lady in the Dean's office. What college hasn't? And the prayers are voluntary. So, after all, Boston University is well worth attention, thinks the visitor, as he accompanies to her home his fair guide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston University. | 4/23/1885 | See Source »

...shall know so much about dreams that we may make them to order; and that the dream book will have vanished, except from the work basket of some aged country maiden of seventy years or more, or from the casket of some boarding school miss, where it will lie amid complexion powders, scented stationery and love-letters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Dreams. | 3/26/1885 | See Source »

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