Word: return
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...board will be charged for the week. Members desiring to change or exchange seats must leave a request therefor on the Auditor's desk. Seats may be retained during temporary absence by notifying the Auditor in writing, and claims for deduction for such absence must be made immediately upon return. Claims not so made will not be allowed...
...honor of the victorious Columbia crew. A great many of the denizens of the metropolis were doubtless enthusiastic over the news, and the city fathers thought they were anticipating the wishes of Columbia graduates and the people at large in offering the victors a public welcome on their return; but the language in which their preamble was couched was such a marked instance of "slopping over" that the most ardent sympathizers with the blue and white were disgusted. One of the three "whereases" will serve as a specimen...
...hoped, see the matter of the house clubs definitely settled, one way or the other. They should either be given up altogether, which under the circumstances would seem not only advisable but unavoidable, or some determined effort made to put them on a substantial footing. A return to the system of class races seems probable, if the clubs are given up, and if they can be made races for eight-oars, it will undoubtedly be the best thing that could happen. There are now some five or six eight-oared shells on the rests at the boat-house, which could...
When my neighbor calls to return a borrowed book, and for a whole hour imposes upon me his theories respecting the Eastern Question, all of which it required less than five minutes to glean from an article in a newspaper of the evening previous, I fully realize this evil. How soothing to my impatience is his assurance that he was not aware time was passing so quickly, when to me ages were slowly wearing away...
WHAT a change it is to return from one's summer wanderings to the bustle and hurry of college life! Everything presents such a rude contrast to the things we had become accustomed to during the summer. In a week or two, to be sure, we have dropped into the old ruts, and are going along as smoothly as if we had never been away, but for the first few days everything seems strange...