Word: lingering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...final and deciding game between the Druids and Harvard, the Druids were tired from their exertions of the previous hour, but still played with pluck and vigor. The ball was constantly thrown from one end of the field to the other, and showed no inclination to linger at either goal; but on five different occasions when it was near the Druids' goal, the fine playing of the Harvard attack forced it through the flags, while the Druid attack was unable to score at all. Harvard's superior system of attack alone won the game. Before the game, Capt. Penniman...
...would be useless to open anew a discussion as to its justice. No one desires to see a higher tone in college athletics more than we, nor would any be more pleased to see some sensible change by which any taint of professionalism which may still linger in them could be removed...
...some minds there seems to linger the erroneous idea that all college papers are published simply for amusement, and it would be well for any such to disabuse their minds of this impression, before venturing an opinion as to the liberty any paper should possess. It is not the amusement, by any means, that induces men to devote so much of their time to writing. The real aim of every college paper is to voice the best collegiate sentiment on subjects that intimately concern a student ; and that, by so doing, it tends to raise the tone of a college...
...parents and where is his goodly dwelling?" But I have never learned the answers to these questions. The problem of the man with the iron mask counts as nothing with me; here is a secret twice as strange and impenetrable. Some noble object must be his; why does he linger among us - among us and yet not of us? Is he a Polish exile; or was his home once in Iceland's unhappy isle? What is the mystery of his existence...
...linger today in this mid-arch of time...