Word: putting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...been cursed every hour of the day and night, and now, at last, seeing that it still remained unannihilated, some one has employed violence and has doubtless returned it to its native dust-heap; or, better still, some match-boy, in sympathy with its kindred rags, has put the mat to a similar use with the old sheep-skin which Bryan O'Lynn appropriated, when, as the ballad runs, "he had no breeches to wear...
...meet the other day a fellow by the name of Robinson, who has lately been in Cambridge, and who told me that he had seen you there. He is related, I believe, to one of your classmates. My fraternal interest got the better of my manners, and I put him in a rather awkward position by asking him what he thought of you. He replied, with apparent sincerity, that you seemed to be a very good fellow, and that you were devilish amusing and impudent Now Robinson himself is a very good sort of a person, but his notions...
...particular, being a marked exception to the rule. This has been brought about by the captain of the College Boat-Club, who not very long ago paid a visit of some duration to England, and studied the rowing of the University crews, after which he returned to America and put in successful practice what he had learnt in this country; and there can be no gainsaying the manifest superiority of the oarsmanship of Yale over that of any other amateur crew in the States. It is still capable of amelioration, and, as strength, muscle, and pluck are not wanting, Yale...
...every office, without regard to anything else, are now willing to leave the matter to be decided by the sober second thoughts of the class. A majority of its members are apparently anxious to see the offices vacated, and then refilled in a meeting distinguished by the absence of " put-up-jobs" and all sorts of wire-pulling. One of two things will certainly be done, - either a new election, perfectly open and free, will be attempted, or the class will split on the rock and graduate without organization. Their final action in this matter is of importance...
...increase the knowledge of undergraduates in matters of art, but there was no one competent and willing to undertake the instruction of the members of the club themselves. By the efforts of Professor Norton, to whom the club owes a large debt of gratitude, it has been put on a basis where there is a chance for it to do something. The success of their new effort rests largely with the undergraduates not members of the club. If a sufficient number of them become subscribers in the manner proposed, they will unquestionably advance their own interests and raise the club...