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Word: returning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...editors of the Lampoon return the enclosed MSS. with thanks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: By the Way. | 12/7/1889 | See Source »

...forced to. We have all been guilty in the past-Princeton perhaps least of all. I don't blame them so much. They found they had an unusual number of available graduates players, and they did what they think we have all been doing in persuading them to return for the foot ball season. The men are stuck there for the year, now, though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Harvard Graduate's Proposition to Yale. | 12/5/1889 | See Source »

...which were those of the Parthenon. Architectural specimens were also taken from the Propylaea, Nike Apteros, and Erechtheum. Between two and three hundred more were engaged several months in remov-these marbles from the Acropolis and lower city, so that when Lord Elgin stopped at Athens on his return to England be found two hundred cases ready for shipment. Some of them were lost by shipwreck in the Mediterranean and it was not until 1812 that all were safely landed in England. At first these were coolly received, owing to the people being engaged in hostilities with France, but finally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Tarbell's Lecture. | 12/5/1889 | See Source »

...fair one, and leaves an honorable opportunity for the three colleges concerned to come to a satisfactory understanding. There are two possible objections, however, to Harvard's acceptance of this scheme. The first of these is that as stated it offered no check to professionalism and to the return of graduates to college simply for athletics. From the stand which Harvard has already taken her position on this point is not at all doubtful. She certainly cannot afford to enter any league which does not preclude the possibility of such abuses. But stringent rules could easily be adopted to avoid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/5/1889 | See Source »

LOST.- A fountain pen. Finder please return to Leavitt and Pierce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 12/4/1889 | See Source »

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