Word: life
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...time. Once in, I saw around me all sorts and conditions of people. There were men with collars and without neckties, and vice versa; women with beards, and women with elbows seemingly enlarged for the time; women with bandaged faces, and women without, but bearing marks of one life-long toothache. What I particularly noticed was the grief that seemed to pervade all. One woman with a face like a baked apple called in the greatest despair, unceasingly, "Miss Flynn, O Miss Flynn !" Presently she burst into tears, and propounded two questions to her neighbors in general, the first relative...
...education, hidden among as many hair-breadth 'scapes and stirring incidents as you will find in the last sensation novel, and adorned by the usual quotations from "The Princess." We sincerely hope that the heroine (cui nomen Wilhelmina, appropriately shortened to "Will") had no fewer adventures in her after life than in her college course; for she must have contracted a morbid desire for excitement during those four years. She saves a classmate (male, of course) from drowning, rides a wild horse, is almost killed, like Horace, by the falling branch of a tree, and generally had her nerves strung...
...Spirit of the Times, who yet desire to keep up with the athletic world at home and abroad. We hope our column may supply this want, and that its excellence may prove our excuse for inserting it. The information contained in it will be taken mainly from Bell's Life, Sporting and Dramatic News, Clipper, Turf, Field, and Farm, and the reliable sheet before mentioned. Thus we hope to present to our readers a bird's-eye view of amateur athletic sports of every place and of every kind...
Columbia-Oxford. Bell's Life says of this race: "If the only question on which depends the race between these Universities is that of championship, we think neither this nor any other contest can take place until American rowing assumes a far different aspect from that which now exists. As matters stand, no college crew can lay claim to the championship...
...does not contain the lives of all the members of the class. The Secretary, this year, does not ask for an elaborate autobiography, with one's descent traced back to Adam, but only for a brief statement of the way in which and the place where the student's life has been passed. We hope that the members of the class will give a tolerably detailed account of the way in which they have spent their college life, the societies they have been members of, their connection with athletics, the rooms they have occupied, and, if space is left...