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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Somebody or other once said that if a couple of Americans were shipwrecked on a desert island, they would at once proceed to organize a meeting. One would take the chair, the other would be secretary; and they would pass a series of formal resolutions, setting forth the dangers of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 2/9/1877 | See Source »

On the other hand, it is worth your while to be connected with the societies which are devoted to amusement. To be sure, as I remember them, they are not very amusing; but, at the same time, most of your friends will join them, and if you do not, you...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 2/9/1877 | See Source »

The time has been rather poor during the past week. The vigor of the catch has fallen off, and the men have not improved on the recover as fast as desirable. The captain, who has been coaching most of the time since the holidays, last week took stroke's lever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CREW. | 2/9/1877 | See Source »

The unusually heavy expenses of last year - five new boats being required, and the crew being kept in training for two races - have left us a debt of about twenty-six hundred dollars. Thirty-five hundred has been this year subscribed. Of this, all that has been yet paid in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADUATES AND BOATING. | 1/26/1877 | See Source »

In order to console those who live in nightly dread of awaking to find their way to terra firma cut off by the flames, we print the following: "A fire ladder has been purchased. Two ladders long enough to reach the highest windows in the College dormitories are now kept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT. | 1/12/1877 | See Source »

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