Word: saws
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...slight expression of the general feeling. To have the cup dashed from our lips when it so nearly touched them makes the defeat the harder to bear. But in such a defeat there is no disgrace, no blame to be attached to any one, as all who saw Harvard's last, grand burst of speed must acknowledge...
...case rests on even firmer ground than this. The Convention made no rule in regard to Freshman crews; so, even on the supposition that Freshman Clubs are subject to University Clubs, they would still be free to act just as they themselves saw fit. Does the Republican say that in the rule concerning the composition of " University or representative " crews, the word " representative " is applicable to Freshman crews? Then must it also maintain the absurdity that any " candidate for the degrees A. B., Ph. B., " &c. can row in a Freshman race...
Which never saw...
...Saw in its wreck the sorry fiddle...
...George Eliot irreverently styles the "Divine Cow." In my acquaintance with him he had always looked with so profound and serious an air upon my little attempts at conversation, that I had come to revere him exceedingly. But one memorable evening my idol fell from his lofty pedestal. I saw him descend to the telling of jokes, and to would-be imitation of a funny character. Alas! I went home that night with "Ilium fuit," "Ilium fuit," ringing in my ears, varied now and then with the more modern refrain of "Babylon is fallen." Years have passed since then...