Word: return
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Said she must return erelong...
...from Mr. Harwood. All the money cleared goes for the support of the crew. When the fund from the theatricals falls short, the deficiency must be made up by subscription; and we shall then be called upon to make payments for which we shall get no such pleasant extra return as is afforded by these entertainments...
...base-ball prospects for this season are exceedingly bright. Through the energy of the Captain of the Nine, Very good practice-grounds have been made out of the unpromising foot-ball field. Seats have been erected and comfortable arrangements thereby secured for the return college games. The season has opened auspiciously. The efficacy of the winter's Gymnasium practice is shown by the excellent form in which the Nine shows itself thus early in the season. The new mask has proved a complete success, since it entirely protects the face and head, and adds greatly to the confidence...
...regulations, we can see no reason why students should not abolish boyish customs. The performances, which some consider so courageous or witty, of blowing up a drain, or mutilating and stealing College property, show first an absence of appreciation of what constitutes gentlemanly conduct, and second, a disposition to return to the boyish and rowdy habits which have been almost wholly uprooted from our soil...
...being than Signor Smitherini. He knows that he is inspiring two or three little souls with perfect bliss, and is himself expecting every moment an increase in his worldly goods. Is not this true happiness, to be doing good to others and to be getting good from them in return? One cannot imagine an organ-grinder to be a scamp. Take the blackest scoundrel and let him go out into the country and grind a barrel-organ for ten days, and at the end of that time, what with the circle of delighted faces constantly around him and the humanizing...