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Word: mens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...building an L to There, - a step rendered almost a necessity by the present overcrowded condition of that edifice; or else the janitors might be hired for one day only in each week. He moved that the money be devoted to building a place of confinement for suspended men, and supporting them there at their own-cost. This motion, however, was not seconded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MEETING OF THE F - Y. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...following men are trying for the Freshman crew: Crawford, Burch, Endicott, Breck, Kip, C. M. Hammond, Lane, Cary, Hall, Bemis, J. M. Hall, and Jennings. They row five hundred strokes every afternoon at 4.30, and then take a run of two miles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...game with McGill was commenced, and the first inning resulted in our favor, - one goal and a touchdown to nothing. Owing to the snow and cold, it was then mutually agreed by the captains not to play the second inning, but to call the game drawn. Our men reached home Tuesday morning, having been most cordially received and entertained while on their trip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CANADA GAMES. | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

...essentially, a city club, with such modifications as life at the University calls for; its active membership is consequently very large, - twelve hundred or more, - about one-half of the undergraduates; it is a club for the whole University, open to men who have just matriculated as well as to those who have been up for several years, and to former members who happen to be in Oxford; while strangers may be "put down" for a month by any undergraduate or graduate member...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OXFORD UNION. | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

...complaint-book," in which members may write any complaint or any suggestion for the management of the club, to which the president makes reply on the opposite page. Beyond the newspaper reading-room is the debating-hall, which was greatly enlarged last summer. A large number of the men who go to Oxford expect to enter public life, for which we have no counterpart in our "politics"; they come up Liberals or Conservatives by education, and the Union debates are, for the most part, on political questions, - live questions, in which all have some concern; hence the debates have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OXFORD UNION. | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

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