Word: previously
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...regatta, were not entitled to votes in the convention; but, after some discussion, it was allowed them. Dartmouth was represented by S. W. McCall and J. H. Worthen, Columbia by S. Tenney and A. B. Symonds. Next followed the election of officers, and this showed signs of a little previous manipulation. The chair was empowered - Harvard alone dissenting - to select a committee on nominations, and accordingly named Mr. H. A. Oakes, Yale, chairman; Mr. H. H. Coston, Wesleyan, and Mr. J. D. McClellan, Brown...
...Globe, but may be accounted for by Mr. Sheridan's illness and the consequent changing of parts. Poor as it was, it hardly needs an apology, for it served as a dark background upon which Madame Janauschek's superb acting stood out with a vivid contrast. The previous evenings of the week she appeared with striking effect in the two characters of Lady Dedlock and Hortense...
...timid with fear. An instance of this was brought to our notice last summer while visiting at a little country town in Pennsylvania, where, at a single evening gathering, we obtained more information about college jokes and scrapes than had come to us during a two years' previous residence at Cambridge. The reason of this was, that, shortly before our arrival, a respected classmate had shot, comet-like, into the society of this town, brightened it for a week with a thousand college tales, in which he generally appeared as hero, and finally departed, leaving the minds of the natives...
...understand that at the time of his death Bulwer was engaged on a work that was expected to far surpass his previous efforts. In his public life he has been successful, and has been prominently connected with numerous Parliamentary measures for educational and social reform...
...this is a little misty; but what followed is much clearer. I remember I sank into an arm-chair by the fire with no definite purpose in mind, but how long I sat thus I have no idea, - it might have been hours or minutes. Without my hearing any previous step in the hall the door opened, and I felt that some one entered. I thought it was Jones come back with more of his foolish, indefinite speeches, and was preparing to read him a short lecture on the besetting sin of intemperance, with pointed allusions, and then treat...