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Word: returning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...frequency with which notices asking for the return of "borrowed" umbrellas appear on the bulletin board at Memorial makes plain to everyone, and particularly to those who have been "borrowed" from, the necessity of some safe method of caring for umbrellas left there. As it is now, a man either leaves his umbrella in the stand outside, with the somewhat unpleasant consciousness that the chances are about one in five he will find it "borrowed" on his return, or else he carries it, wet and dripping, into the dining room with him. Truly it seems as though some remedy were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/7/1883 | See Source »

...Saturday the club held another most successful run. The meet was announced to be for a two days run, to Newburyport on Saturday and to return from there on Sunday. Arrangements had been made beforehand with the hotel and a box had been reserved for the H. B. C. at the theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD BICYCLE CLUB. | 11/5/1883 | See Source »

JUNIOR THEMES.Theme II. will be due in Sever 3 on Thursday, November 8, at 2 o'clock. Subjects: 1. The story of Antigone. 2. The story of Judith. 3. The Return of Napoleon from Elba. 4. The fight between the Monitor and the Merrimac. 5. An account of some personal adventure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY CALENDAR. | 11/3/1883 | See Source »

...Wendell will return junior themes with criticisms, in Sever 11, to section 2 (McCook to Yocum), this afternoon, from 2 till...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 11/1/1883 | See Source »

...most noticeable fault is the poor catching of punted balls. Those that are returned by the half-backs on the opposing side are rarely caught, on account of the idea that, even if they are not caught, ample time is given by the college team, for the university half-backs to pick up and return the ball, but we would remind the halfbacks that Princeton men are proverbial for the way in which they follow after the ball, and such an error would be more fatal than is perhaps imagined in an important game. The reshers block fairly well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE YALE FOOT-BALL TEAM. | 11/1/1883 | See Source »

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