Word: manly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...call thou for help from no mortal man...
BATHS. - Persons who wish to subscribe for the use of the bath-tubs in the south basement of Matthews can do so at 40 M. Hot and cold water. A man will be kept constantly, and clean rooms and tubs can always be found...
...times made have been considerably beaten here; but there were two events that step several paces beyond anything ever done before at Harvard, the one hundred yards and the one hundred and twenty. In many of the other races better time would have been made, undoubtedly, had the best man had some one more nearly his equal to push him; but in the races mentioned above, the contestants being all good men, the result was a record in each case not only exceptional for Harvard but creditable for any American college. We cannot help reverting to the tardiness with which...
...speaking of your friend Brown, in San Francisco. "O yes," ejaculates the man of universal information, with the air of a person who has known Brown from boyhood, and has been on intimate terms with the Brown family for three generations. You question him closely, and he says he has not seen Brown for several years; does n't suppose he should recognize him now. When questioned more closely, he admits he does not know Brown personally, but has heard a great deal about him. This is what most of his intimate friendships amount to. But his conceit is impenetrable...
...impostors, and never think of putting them to a test. They are caught, however, in their own nets sometimes. The story is an old one, but nevertheless true, that in a certain Greek elective the instructor asked his pupils the color of the lions in Greece. One well-informed man said they were tawny, another maintained that they were black, and a third asserted with confidence that they were brown. "None of you are right," said the instructor. "There are no lions in Greece...