Word: roll
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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II.3. If the ball either fly, bound, or roll in touch from a kick-out it must be brought back; but if it touches any player it need not be brought back...
Singing out bravely and clearly, unheeding the roll of the thunder...
...active members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, of which they are members; that, as is implied by their membership of that society, they were the highest scholars of the Senior and Junior classes; that their names would be recognized at once by anybody familiar with the roll of students as representing the most studious and orderly element of the College, and that they are known to me - by reputation in all cases, and in most by personal acquaintance also - to be gentlemen, whose principles, self-respect, and steadiness of conduct, and whose word may be relied upon with absolute...
...away as this, or at the Zoological Museum, due notice ought to be given if the instructors intend beforehand to be absent. But they are not content with letting us find out for ourselves that there is to be no recitation. They even employ a person to call the roll in their absence, and then we are made responsible for what we have not missed. The person thus employed, when questioned, said that he thought it was customary, and if not, that it ought to be. This inconvenience surely merits the attention of the Faculty, and we would suggest that...
...will be allowed to play at Lacrosse or Tennis with the balls from the bowling-alleys, or to use them in any way except by placing them gently on the alley and suffering them to roll down the alley by their own weight...