Word: past
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During the past year the university library was increased by 12,360 volumes...
...team have been practising pulling with the Technology team in Boston, during the past week...
...Columbia crews. A rather intimate acquaintance with the oarsmen of Harvard compels us to doubt the truth of this statement. We are also puzzled as to the reasons the journal in question could have had for bringing forward such a charge. Surely we have been enabled in the past to present to Columbia an uninterrupted view of our rudder without any resort to "sneaking." Is there any reason to doubt that this will hold true of the future...
That college government has grown, is growing, and will grow, very much as political government, can hardly be doubted. We can but see that in the past, tyrannical or monarchic government was quite as prevalent in colleges as it had been in political institutions. We see, too, that college government has grown slowly from the purely tyrannical stage or period, until at last it has reached the oligarchic. "Government of the students, by the faculty, for the faculty," is a phrase that will, perhaps, convey a slightly exaggerated idea of the old time system of college government...
...ought not to be omitted. The tug-of-war teams, at the very end of the meeting, when they had had over four hours in which to get ready, kept an audience of fourteen hundred men waiting for nearly ten minutes. As it was at that time long past the dinner or supper hour of a large majority of this audience, and many of them had come out from Boston to see the games, such a delay was inexcusable. The next meeting will be attended by ladies who, even less than men, will care to remain through a long meeting...