Word: return
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...strict training of the oarsmen would effectually prevent any dissipation on their part; but the present case is different. The slight training required of amateur ball-players would be no protection to the poor youths, and yard-sticks would fail to measure the length of our faces, on our return to Cambridge, when we heard that the ruin of the present players (to be sure, a mere trifle in itself) had destroyed the Harvard Nine, and that none but Yale and Princeton were left to struggle for the championship! There can be no doubt that the students will pray most...
...ball goes into touch, the first player, on his side, who touches it down must bring it to the spot where it crossed the touch line; or if a player, when running with the ball, cross or put any part of either foot across the touch line, he must return with the ball to the spot where the line was so crossed, and then either (1) bound the ball in the field of play, and then run with it, kick it, or throw it back to his own side, or (2) throw it out at right angles to the touch...
...HARTFORD gentleman who had tarried late at a wine supper found his wife awaiting his return in a high state of nervousness. Said she, "Here I've been waiting and rocking in a chair till my head swims round like a top." "Jess so where I've been," responded he; "it's in the atmosphere." - Spectator...
...persons having in their possession books belonging to the Hasty Pudding Library are requested to return them immediately to 9 Linden St., 21 Holworthy, or 19 Little's Block...
...seeking for a youth whose appearance betokened him as coming from the classic shades of the Square. After looking from sunrise until the mists from the Back Bay had chilled him through, he at last understood that he had been deceived; he had advertised, but with no return. Praying that he might be blessed with only one more interview with the honorable youth who had beguiled him into paying twenty dollars to furnish the students with tabular views, the edges of which were ragged with torn advertisements, he slowly plodded homeward his weary way, a sadder and a poorer...