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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Who shall relate the fortune of that day! Suffice it to say that at dinner-time we all met, having bagged - what do you think? - one partridge, one quail, and the tail-feathers of a blue-jay. On comparing notes, our feelings were somewhat relieved on learning that no one...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TRIP TO PLYMOUTH. | 11/20/1874 | See Source »

A FAIR presumption seems to exist that one will find in a college man a firm opponent of cant; if, at least, we mean by that term "the repetition of a creed after it has become a phrase by the cooling of that white-hot conviction which once made it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CANT. | 11/20/1874 | See Source »

On a careful examination, I conclude that so great is the opposition in the most important of these rules that any attempt to patch them together would be unsatisfactory to both sides. The smaller rules, indeed, relating to kicking off, choice of goals, limits of grounds, number of men, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL MATCHES. | 11/20/1874 | See Source »

Then, too, themes and forensics are very good things, but, as they are marked at present, their imposition is simply a bore, with few good results. Three hundred marks are given for six themes on a scale of seven thousand five hundred; so that a falling off of twenty-five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/20/1874 | See Source »

Now, how far will the happiness described in this article go towards making a man, in any sense, happy? Suppose a man to succeed in limiting his desires to but one thing, - wealth, let us say, or knowledge; have we not enough examples to teach us that this one thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAILURE. | 11/6/1874 | See Source »

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