Word: pre
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...play is to be made which includes a foul, the Yale umpire calls the attention of the referee to another part of the field. The moment this is effected the play is started, the foul made, the advantage gained and the referee has seen nothing. These signals were all pre-arranged, and we are told and indeed saw that "they worked beautifully...
Professor Putnam's lecture next Thursday will be an account of Fort Ancient-Ohio, the largest pre-historic earthwork in the United States, which en, closes an area of one hundred acres, illustrated by a diagram of the fort...
...causes not easily traced; much also, we think, is due, to the growing importance and influence of college journalism in student life, especially of our literary weeklies and fortnightlies. As once former Harvard papers had an important influence in introducing Holmes, Lowell and other men of literary pre-eminence to the business of literature, so now at Harvard and elsewhere we may look to see a similar result again appearing from the influence of college journalism and future celebrities graduating from these practical schools of letters...
...copper plated with silver, found in a mound on land along the Scioto river owned by Gen. Robinson, together with the skeletons of three mound builders, pieces of copper armor and curiously-fashioned arrow-heads. The wristlet is deemed especially valuable as an evidence of the ability of the pre-historic race which built the mounds to plate one metal on another...
...this new civilization a stranger is surprised to find so many women given up to dress-reform and pre-Raphaelite poetry; it is generally supposed that in America there is so much to be done, so much boiling and bubbling to simmerdown that there is no time for these chimerical dabblings in the literature and art which denote a civilization that is well shaken down and settled. It is supposed that these elements only come to the surface when a civilization begins to rot from its own tedium, that they are the gases therefrom caught in balloons and allowed...