Word: old
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...forty-two men who have made the highest records in Dr. Sargent's strenth tests, four have worked with the 'varsity football squad this fall, one is an old 'varsity player, four were on class teams, two, including Captain Davis, have been prominent candidates for the 'varsity crew, seven are class crew men, three are track athletes,-a total of twenty-one men, or fifty per cent of the entire list...
...poetry for young folks. This compilation is now ready, and is soon to be published by D. C. Heath and Co., Boston, under the title of "The Heart of Oak Books." These books are five in number, and are carefully graded. The first contains childish rhymes and melodies old as Ben Jonson and Shakspeare and Goldsmith, and some of the best-known fables and stories in our tongue. The second includes children's poems and nursery tales, "old as Hengist and Horsa." In the the three remaining volumes are shorter poems universally accepted as treasures of the language-many from...
...first place, it is never economy to buy cheap clothes, for with them you are never well dressed. Good clothes, made by some tailor in whom you have confidence, are more economical in the end, for there is a good "tone" to them, even when they are old. In buying the highest grade of garments you are not paying for "name," but you are getting the best of everything from the wool to the finished garment. The wool used in the finest English cloths, is allowed to lie over two years, after being dyed, before being used; you can readily...
...first place, it is never economy to buy cheap clothes, for with them you are never well dressed. Good clothes, made by some tailor in whom you have confidence, are more economical in the end, for there is a good "tone" to them, even when they are old. In buying the highest grade of garments you are not paying for "name," but you are getting the best of everything from the wool to the finished garment. The wool used in the finest English cloths, is allowed to lie over two years, after being dyed, before being used; you can readily...
...consisted solely of kicking, while at Harvard running with the ball, holding, and passing were allowed. The difficulty was at length overcome by concession on the part of Yale, who agreed to play under rules with which she was unfamiliar. In consequence she was beaten, the score by the old system being four goals and two touchdowns to nothing. Fifteen men played on a side...