Word: paths
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...United States, we learned that the track on Jarvis is second to none. Now with such a track, and with the services of one of the best trainers in England, we surely ought to be able to increase considerably Harvard's somewhat slender reputation on the cinder-path...
...wonder if this rose beside my path...
...costly piece of work, and we hope that any assessment which may possibly be made will be paid up promptly and cheerfully. Now that the work is complete, it will not need renewing for a series of years, and we may also congratulate ourselves on having the only cinder path this side of Mott Haven, New York. The track has been carefully resurveyed, 18 inches removed from the inside all round, and it is now an exact fifth-mile in circumference. The roller will be kept going on it incessantly, and no trouble spared to make it as fine...
...Niagara Index man is still on the war-path. The Bowdoin Orient and the Dartmouth are the special objects of his spite this time. Hear what he says: "The Orient has seven editors, but we never could, and probably never will, be able to locate their labors. The paper has no editorials. "The nine boyish editors of the Dartmouth are in paroxysms of grief..... Why our editors do not flaunt their patronymics to the breeze is none of the Dartmouth's business." Harvard comes in for the following: "This [i. e. the restriction of books at the Library...
...slightest difficulty in obtaining a certificate of good moral character when he desired to enter college. The examinations offered a slight obstruction for a time, as George was not especially fond of study, but after a few unsuccessful trials he formed an intimacy with a proctor, and his path was smoothed before...