Word: quartered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...manners and customs of French students, from which we extract the following: "Students' private libraries are neither so large nor so varied in Paris as they are with us. The average Parisian student buys his books at second-hand in the old bookstores, or along the quays. . . . The Latin quarter is always represented by a Radical in the parliament, and most of the students are ardent Republicans. Unlike the students of Germany and the United States, the Parisian etudiant has no collection of songs. He sings 'Gaudeaumus,' it is true, and 'Lauriger Horatius,' but he has no songs that...
...sixteenth annual dinner of the Harvard Club of New York will take place at Delmonico's, Fifth avenue and Twenty-sixth street, on Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 6.30 P. M. All Harvard men from any quarter, whether members of the club or not, are cordially invited. The price of tickets for the dinner, including wine, is six dollars. The club, as usual, pays the additional cost of the dinner. It is desirable that the committee should promptly receive notice from those intending to be present...
...Princeton Base-ball Club is in hard training under Capt. Rafferty, '82. Eighteen men are training, of whom four are from '85. Their grounds have been recently graded and a quarter-mile track added...
Prof. - "Time is money; how do you prove it?" Soph. - "When you give twenty-five cents to a couple of tramps, it is certainly a quarter...
...clock precisely the Princeton men entered the arena; the Yale men appeared five minutes later. Fate, however, was against the New England college. At 10.45 the four surviving Yale men who were still able to wield their clubs cried for quarter, and the referee, announcing that Princeton had won the championship, delivered the ball to the Princeton leader. The casualties are : Three Yale men and three Princeton men killed; four Yale men and seven Princeton men wounded, two of the latter not being expected to recover. Robinson and Brown, of Yale, have each both legs broken, and Jenkins, of Princeton...