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Word: return (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fact, last Friday, the postman was rather overburdened, as he made his customary rounds, with about a thousand extra missives, innocent looking enough in themselves, clad as they were in small and modest looking envelopes. But a closer inspection of the outside showed the ominous words, "Return to Allen Danforth," in the corner, and upperclassmen who read this legend knew well enough what was inside. Now it happened that we were sitting in the room of a prominent '85 man when this important official document fell through his letter-slip, and dropped unpretentiously to the floor. To us the disjointed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Term Bills | 12/22/1884 | See Source »

...possible to publish it much easier than is the case at present. Never, we believe, has the book been as late as it has this year. It is quite probable, however, that the vacation will be utilized to such an extent as to have the book ready on our return...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/22/1884 | See Source »

...give way to despair simply because he finds himself, on his yearly return to Cambridge, catalogued in a class one year behind that in which his name was enrolled the year previous. Let him the rather look upon the case of the aged undergraduate in a Vermont college, who entered with '32 and is to graduate with '85, and from the example thus set before him draw hope. It is true that some of us, who live at the rate of $1.500 a year, might object to expending such a large sum as $79.500 to attain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/20/1884 | See Source »

Copies of the prayer petition have been sent to the students who live outside the college dormitories; these copies are printed on postal cards, which the students are asked to sign and return, whether they happen to live outside prayer limits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/18/1884 | See Source »

...foot ball championship. The regular convention is held a week after the Thanksgiving game, and at this meeting the championship is decided. This year, however, Captain Richards was so severely injured that he feared, if he once went back to New Haven, he would be unable to return to New York within a month at the least. He accordingly requested the delegates, all of whom were then in New York, to have a special meeting immediately after Thanksgiving, in place of the regular meeting. To this of course the delegates willingly consented, the meeting was held, and the question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/18/1884 | See Source »

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