Word: lies
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...football season has begun, and we shall have a steady list of casualties from now on. Princeton and Yale seem to have pretty well matched teams, and the championship will probably lie between them. What is the matter with the Harvard men? It is so long since they won anything except tennis games that the graduates are absolutely disheatened.-N. Y. Star...
...point out the reason why the crew proved so slow would lead us too deeply into the study of their style of rowing, but in general the cause seems to lie in the failure to profit by the experience of recent years, inasmuch as the whole system of organization and management introduced by Storrow in 1885 was completely disregarded because the crews in the crews in the two succeeding years were defeated. The Yale and Columbia crews of 1886 beat Harvard after close races because they adopted, to a considerable extent, the same system and ideas that Storrow had taught...
...their superior lordships, is a proceeding which, the freshman may believe, the better sentiment of the college utterly despises, and we shall heartily congratulate those who have received such "invitation" if they refuse to notice them. The blame for the survival of a remnant of former customs must lie with a minority of the sophomores, but the weakness of those who respond deserves some censure. Our words may have no effect in keeping a semblance of order, but we think we have shown the matter in its true light...
...Brooks occupied the chapel last evening. His sermon treated of the discontents and mistakes of the misunderstood man and the means of escape from discontent which lie within the power of such a man. Mr. G. Frank Monroe, the tenor, was the soloist. Dr. Brooks will conduct prayers during the week...
...world, and, upon finding that the Auvergnat tells the truth, hastens to make the latter his friend. He soon begins to repent of his bargain, for his best laid plans are frustrated by the interference of his new friend. At last he finds it necessary to make the Auvergnat lie, in order to save the reputation of Madame Coquenard. Prunette undertakes to bring this about, and the scene in which she coquettes with the teller of unpleasant truths was especially well acted. The parts were very well sustained throughout, and everything went very smoothly without the delays and hitches which...