Word: past
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...headquarters of General Artemus Ward, during the first days of the Revolution. In its corners are the dents of revolutionary muskets stacked there by the patriot soldiers. Here, also, Oliver Wendell Holmes, America's greatest wit and one of her most charming writers, was born. Loosely bound to the past and with but few historical associations, the loss of so famous a building would be irreparable. Misfortune through it be, we fear the Holmes house is doomed, and that after this year we shall never see the only monument in Cambridge which brings back our past vividly...
...very well, but against first-class exponents of the game it is simple suicide. Each player should stand on the service line (excepting the server, of course, and he gets up as soon as possible) and if they are up to the mark nothing except a smash will get past them. This is always done in England, and even allowing for the difference in 'calibre' of the players, the superiority of the English style was fully exemplified in the late international matches. The more advanced the game gets here, the necessity for this change will be more apparent...
...Alpha Phi Society, a ladies' secret fraternity organization in Syracuse University, has recently formed the Eta chapter in Boston University. We read that during the past week three graduate members from Syracuse, one from Schenectady, one from the faculty of Wellesley College, and one from Boston "met nine enterprising and enthusiastic ladies of Boston University, and initiated them into the enchanting mysticism of the order." The Alpha Phi Society was organized...
...train faithfully this year again. Yet confidence in winning certain events should not lead us to think we have any certainty of getting the cup and that there is no need of training new men. There are several events, which we have sometimes won and sometimes lost during past years, some of which we must win next May in order to win the cup. Unfortunately our best athletes in these particular events have graduated, so that for the mile run, the broad and pole jump and the shot and hammer, we have, at present, no one as good as last...
...study of Greek at Harvard is a subject that periodically receives the attention of the faculty of our university; and although in the past the defenders of Greek, like the defenders of ancient Greece, have bravely met and routed their opponents, the struggle to lessen the importance of Greek in the curriculum by giving more prominence to French and German has been again and again renewed; and now, strengthened by Adams's essay read before the Phi Beta Kappa in June, the supporters of the modern languages have renewed the contest with more vigor than ever before. At the last...