Word: man
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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QUOTH a wise man to a youth...
Last Saturday I was vegetating in St. Goar Library, on the Rhine. Now, owing to the numerous Puritanical cliques in this charming city, the conseil municipal (corresponding to what you call the Library Council) has come to the conclusion that, after going to church, a man ought never to play billiards or cards, or drink anything stronger than H2O, enlivened by a little soda-water, alleging that nothing is more detrimental to orthodox principles than having the mind occupied on the Sabbath. So they close the library and close the cafes and close the shops, thus obliging you to seek...
...interrupted I, "I am a married man...
...handicap run, 75-yard handicap run, 440-yard handicap hurdle - race, 20 hurdles, 2 ft. 6 in. high, 3-mile bicycle race, 1-mile walk (barring 7-minute men), amateur tug-of-war (teams of 10 men), amateur tug-of-war for light-weights (teams of 6 men), each man to weigh less than 150 lbs., men to weigh at Wood's Gymnasium, 4 and 6 East Twenty-eighth Street, April 3, at 8 P.M.; military tug-of-war (by special request) between company teams from the Seventh, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third regiments, N. G. S. N. Y. (teams...
...alms, a charity, is something given for which no return is demanded or expected. Does this definition describe the conditions under which our scholarships are given? No, their acquisition means work, hard work, both during and after college life, and their influence is to increase a man's natural desire to work by throwing upon him an obligation to do his utmost to forward the cause which he is chosen to assist. The list of those who have received scholarships is a roll of honor. The successful ones are the men who have overcome sharp competition by force of superior...