Word: returning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Nine will play a return game with the Beacons to-morrow on Holmes Field...
...little while. It was said that he had been "caved in" by a strong wind, and needed strengthening, so we were led to believe that his absence was only temporary. It is now very nearly a year, however, since he left us. Is he never to return? Please relieve my anxiety as soon as possible...
...return no more...
...wearied with this grievance that I withdrew early in the evening. On my return home I fell into a profound contemplation on the evils of family companies and the decay of good old Roman customs. The children in Rome, according to Tacitus, sat at a table apart from the triclinium where their elders reclined, and, we may justly suppose, did not add their valuable fund to the resources of polite conversation. The little Britannicus is said to have been sitting at one of those tables when he took the poison. His fate was, to be sure, a severe...
...every year; of course, until the preliminaries of this race are arranged, no other challenge which might interfere with it can possibly be sent. Last year, for several good reasons, we were forced to refuse Cornell's challenge, and it was only proper that we should challenge her in return, as we have done, at the earliest possible date. The Executive Committee not being composed of jockeys and blacklegs, it was never supposed that they could be so misinterpreted, or they would have guarded themselves more carefully against the Era. As the matter stands, we have challenged Cornell...