Word: past
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...early showed a great taste for the literature of the past, and longed to fit for college. Neither my father nor Father Reilly wished me to go to the Public Schools, on account of the low standard of social position. I studied by myself. By blacking boots, I earned enough to buy Bohn's translation of the Iliad, and was entranced with the beauty of that noble poem. I entered in 1876, and since then I have done nothing but study. I have left college only once, and that was on St. Patrick's Day, when my father's society...
...Monday, Dec. 15, about quarter past eleven in the morning, an alarm of fire was sounded, and large volumes of smoke and flame were seen issuing from the south entry of the upper floor in Stoughton. Before the Fire Department arrived some students were busy in passing buckets, and in getting the ladders that were hidden under Weld and Harvard Hall. Jones, the bell-ringer, tried to put out the flames with a garden pump and a bucket of water, before the alarm was given. His efforts, however, were unsuccessful, and by the time the engines arrived, the fire...
...soft and sunny past...
...general development, such as those of Dr. Winship and others; but from thirty to fifty machines intended to develop the different parts of the body, in order that no one man may take possession of a machine and monopolize it, as was too frequently the case in the past. There will be a new style of adjustable pulling weight. In principle it is the same as the old pulling weight, but in the details of construction it is vastly superior. Wooden pulleys on steel shafts have been substituted for the old iron pulleys, and the cowhide has been replaced...
...Senior Class met in Boylston Hall last Monday evening, to elect Class-Day officers. The meeting was called to order at ten minutes past seven by Mr. Howard Townsend, the chairman of the preliminary committee. The selection of chairman for the meeting was approved by the class, and the report of the Committee accepted...