Word: mislaid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...send them to the secretary as soon as convenient. It is hoped that all will answer the questions, and that those who think essential points have been omitted will make use of the blank pages to remedy such omissions. Blanks will be furnished on application, to any who have mislaid the first...
...seniors who have lost or mislaid their lists may procure duplicates at the studio...
...should like to call the attention of the library authorities to the placing on file of the latest examination papers. Now is the time to make a collection of the papers in the various courses, before those left over have been mislaid. It is much to be deplored that so little interest should be taken in a matter which is of so much importance to the students. Little or no trouble is experienced in getting a copy of every examination paper and placing it on file in the library. This was done for some time prior to 1883. Since then...
...college colors. "By the way" said he, "what are the Columbia colors?" "Blue and white," said I. He looked over the balls very carefully, but failed to find any with the blue and white stripes, and then said to me, "I guess the Columbia ball must have been mislaid." Then the students rose up and cheered and applauded most vociferously their loved President, who in the midst of his studies hadn't forgotten the fact that Harvard hadn't been able to win a base-ball game from his students. - N. Y. Times...
...following is from the Yale Courant of June 6th: "The Harvard DAILY CRIMSON has lately published an editorial speaking of a 'wail' or a 'howl' (we have mislaid the paper and the exact word escape us) which in its mind has arisen from its 'sister college in New Haven,' about the listlessness, over-confidence, and general demoralization of the Yale crew. And the CRIMSON warns the Harvard crew against putting any faith in such 'wails.' Moreover, the CRIMSON cites as an instance of such a wail's proving only a 'gag,' the articles which appeared in the Yale papers last...