Word: maying
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...agreement the four clubs promised to pay Mr. Blakey $2,500 for all the boats at present in the club boat-house, of which $1,500 was to be paid before July 1, 1877, and the remaining $1,000 before April 1, 1878. However unwise and hasty this agreement may have been, it is now too late to retract it, and in order to insure the payment of the remaining debt, the officers must enforce the rule that nobody shall use any club boats during the ensuing year without a previous payment...
...Harvard, and shows no intention of ceasing to do so. She was one of the first academies to change her method of instruction in Latin and Greek so as to fit students for the new method of examination; and thus far the change has proved satisfactory. While Exeter may not be a "special feeder" for Harvard, she certainly does not seem to consider the requirements for admission excessive or impracticable...
...this year to the mass of students, because they have used it so much more; but anybody who knows other libraries must be struck with the great convenience of ours, and the ease with which books can be obtained. We call attention to this in the hope that everybody may be led to appreciate the successful efforts of the new Librarian and his assistants, - efforts of which every week seems to give fresh proofs...
...some short abstract of sporting news has long been felt by many men who have not the time to wade weekly through several papers like the 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...
...good fortune to become the owner of a "Bible" of those days, and from it I have selected a few facts that may be interesting to students of the present edition of that work of reference...