Word: perilous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crew shall take another crew's water, except at its own peril of being ruled out in case of a foul...
...first with young men, certainly the only time they had been exclusively Cambridge students. What would an English matron say at the mention of dangerous sophomores and freshly freshmen as travelling companions of a young lady? Yet safe and unharmed from that journey, she who knows such peril, wishes to pay tribute to all American young men, and give praise to these representatives of a New England University, and your own great city, for they were all Chicago men. by saying that if one is looking for a type of young gentleman hood, young knights sans peuret sans reproche,-such...
...time with the pulse of the nation. Books were laid aside for the musket, familiarity of the classics war superseded by the knowledge of military tactics; the robe of the student was replaced by the uniform of the soldier. Academic honors lost their charm when the Union was in peril, and noble literary ambitions were as dust in the balance when the nation called for defenders. There were five hundred and thirty-five Harvard men among the volunteers of the North. Of these, three hundred and eighty-one were commissioned officers...
GLOBE THEATRE.-Mrs, Langtry in "A Wife's Peril." Performance...
GLOBE THEATRE.-Mrs. Langtry in "A Wife's Peril." Performance...