Word: lies
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...general confession of their justness, and a vague appeal to wealthy parents to cut down their sons' allowances. If we depend much or mainly on an example of simple living on the part of those who have been bred in luxury, we shall be disappointed. Our practical efforts will lie in the direction of making economy respectable and of reducing the temptation to spend, by which the ordinary student's expenses are needlessly aggravated...
...time when the men are not out rowing, they spend in lounging about on the piazza, reading or talking. Just beside the quarters is a large open field, where the crew occasionally have a little game of ball, but from all appearances their skill does not seem to lie at all in this direction...
...real pathos, but at others where the part requires case of manner, she falls woefully short. The other members of the company, with the exception of Mr. Kiddre as John Dill, seem to have not the first elements of dramatic ability. Their only idea of by play seemed to lie in picking up a book off the centre of the table and rapidly flirting over the leaves in a pretence to read. The number of times which this unhappy book was laid violent hands on was heart rending...
Much more attention is being paid to the condition of the tennis courts this year than there was last. Care is taken to have the courts rolled after heavy rains, and the players need no longer fear to see the ball lie dead at their feet because it happens to find a convenient resting place in a foot print...
...victim this time. Harvard's turn will come next; in fact, it is always Harvard's turn. Well known colleges are like public men; no story about them is so wildly absurd, that some journals will not print it, and many people believe it. And the bigger the lie is, the more eagerly it is spread...