Word: moons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BIJOU THEATRE.-"Skipped by the Light of the Moon." Performance...
...seemingly unable to close without making a few flings at Harvard and Yale. He blandly states: "If all the bosh that has been written about the aquatic deeds and words of Harvard and Yale could be collected together, it would be enough to ballast a railroad to the moon, with sufficient left to fill in the Newark Meadows. We frankly acknowledge that the aquatically inclined students of Yale and Harvard-individually as boys, and collectively as boat clubs-have frequently, persistently, and with malice aforethought, committed the crime colloquially called "putting on airs" over the oarsmen of what they...
...challenge is not accepted, it will claim the championship of American college rowing, and call upon public opinion to sustain its claim. While it is about it, it might make its challenge a little broader so as to take in Oxford and Cambridge, and institutions of learning in the moon and other planets, so as to be able to claim the championship of the solar system, which is more honorable than a mere American championship, and quite as easy if championship can be got without beating anybody. Still, merely as a matter of taste, perhaps it would be as well...
...moon rose slowly on the cliffs...
Across the moon's wake floats a skiff...