Word: lies
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Several important communications received at a late hour last evening were compelled to lie over owing to the press of matter received earlier...
...fact that the Institute of Technology had decided to parade in their ranks." But, says the writer, ingenuously, the Technology does not propose to parade in their ranks, consequently, can Harvard, "in respect to itself, turn out with a party that takes such shady methods"-that tells a naughty lie, to speak boldly, "to secure our presence in its ranks?" Well, we hardly know. If the simple facts were considered we are very sure the Independents would not desire in their ranks anyone who could adopt so shady a method of argument as the writer has done, for the letter...
...yells from their mucker audience, are not soothing to the nervous systems of the inhabitants of ground floor rooms. We all know what a nuisance the muckers are when a concert or anything else is going on in the yard, and how annoying they are when we wish to lie around under the trees in warm weather. We have in mind certain tennis courts on the north side of Jarvis that were almost ruined by the wear and tear of mucker ball games. The muckers hold full sway; they annoy us at every step, sometimes because we, forsooth...
...livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the city government; one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust. And as we were thinking and consulting how to effect this great work, it pleased God to stir up the heart of Mr. John Harvard (minister of Charlestown), a godly gentleman, and a lover of learning, living among us, to give the he one-half of his estate...
...follow the crews down the course. This has proved inconvenient in more ways than one, the crews have been unable to get very near the referee, and on such a large boat as a steam tug the officer in question cannot easily move around among the boats, but must lie moored at the pier until the race is started. In former years there has always been more or less complaint about both on the part of referees and crews. Yesterday's trouble was only a repetition of this old rule. Today, we hope, will see the remedy. The managers...