Word: past
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prices will be as much below retail as past transactions in this line indicate...
...Clipper comments on the management of the Mott Haven games as follows: The officials were experienced and efficient, showing that the association has profited by the lessons learned in past years, when incompetency called forth severe criticism. The management otherwise, however, was as lax as usual at college meetings, a number of persons who had no business there being permitted to invade the infield, often to the annoyance of the officials. This is a long existing evil which loudly calls for remedy...
...support of its team. It seems rather small for any one to begrudge a suit, even though it does cost thirty-four dollars, to the nine, and its six substitutes, that have borne their defeat with such a manly spirit and are working so hard to retrieve their past misfortune. When we look to see the men despondent and careless they are cheerful and are working earnestly and faithfully. Surely we have not given our freshmen nine the credit that is its due. Some one who cherishes a petty grudge against Mr. Vila, the captain, suggests that...
...cause they are intended to honor. The custom of calling to mind and honoring the sacrifices of those who lost their lives in the recent struggle in this country, needs no excuse. Harvard undergraduates, in the enjoyment of the present, ought not to forget what was done in the past by those who left their college pleasures of the battle-field of the Union...
...most earnest and and industrious class. They are, many of them, country boys accustomed to hard work add patient efforts. Several of them are ready to go back into the field and swing the scythe or take care of horses and cattle. One is prepared by past experience to act as fireman on a locomotive, or conductor on a horse car. Another has been a conductor on a Pullman car and would like to be again, and a third wishes to be a clerk on a steamboat. At least a dozen are ready to be hotel clerks, or even waiters...