Word: save
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...When all save the rumbling wheels is still...
...private schools in Boston. This was all well enough; professors of course had a right to dispose of their leisure in giving additional instruction, and nothing was thought of the matter. So it was when the Annex was established. At first all was a depth of mystery, and save for an occasional meeting at the notebook counter, or sundry jests in the College journals, no one would have believed that such a thing as the Annex existed...
...fine, one of the best Latin scholars of America. And such a man is accused of deliberately mixing up names and assigning marks by lottery!! And who is the accuser? An editor of the - Harvard Echo!! That such accusations against such a man could not have been brought save by a candidate either for toga asyli or for the toga virilis, there can be no doubt. Meanwhile, it is a disgrace to the College to have the trashy effusions of such unripe boyhood as the above extract trumpeted abroad as the "representative" opinion of Harvard students...
...memories are naturally brief. So quickly does one class follow another, that old traditions are soon forgotten, and even important facts in the history of our organizations lie buried in the volumes of College papers. Of nothing is this more true than of the Nine, whose past is unknown save to a few. To trace quickly and succinctly the chief events in its history is the object of this and succeeding articles...
...attempt. In neither instance did these professional substitutes receive any compensation for their services. Had these games been played in term-time we could have filled the vacant places with substitutes; as it was, we were obliged to make use of any one we could get, in order to save ourselves from playing with eight...