Word: passe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...GREENE, JR.FOLLOWING men be on Norton's at 4.30 to pass and kick. C. Brewer, Wrightington, Raymond, Hitch, Cabot, Brown, Hamlen, Eakins, Phelan, E. Clarke, A. Brewer, McNear, Fairchild, Foster, Wrenn, Borden, Gould, Shaw, Faxon, Hoague, Tiffany...
...about) fifty-foot creek at Princeton is to the Charles River on which Harvard rows. The Isis at Oxford will average about as wide as a length and a half of a shell. The Cam at Cambridge is much narrower, so much so that two eight-oars can pass in safety only by each paddling very slowly. There are some parts of it where they cannot do even that. If, therefore, these English universities have developed such a prolific and far-reaching rowing spirit, and turned out so many crews, it is not because they have been favored by exceptional...
...than they find these useful in advancing themselves and their friends politically, or in getting money. Even now there is encamped in one of the beautiful valleys of Maryland an army of eight thousand vagabonds who are marching to Washington with no further purpose than to force Congress to pass laws for their own welfare, not for the good of the country. And these vagabonds may be said to be a representative body of American people, for always since the founding of the nation, have states, corporations, and individuals continually sought to make the governing bodies pass laws for their...
...University, it was only partially carried out. Owing to the manner in which affairs turned then, there are two societies today, neither of which acknowledges the other as superior and on whose respective merit it would not be expected that any disinterested persons would be willing to pass judgment. If some method for coalescing all the good speakers can be found, it would assuredly be well; we simply point out that the method sugested is inadequate...
...from competition with professional teams, and the provision for games with both Andover and Exeter. There is, however, one addition to the list that might profitably be made, and that is a game with Exeter on their home grounds. We think it a mistake to let any athletic season pass without having a Harvard team visit both these preparatory schools...