Word: saws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...arguments used to urge citizens of Cambridge to join. But the career of our society has already shown that the most careful management is necessary in order to make co-operation successful. It will not do to have any such miscalculation and over-extension of business as we saw here a little over a year...
...House, to the Hall where they have met for the despatch of Public Business till last Wednesday; for on Tuesday night about 12 o'clock, in the severest snow storm I ever remember I heard the cry of Fire, one moment brought me to the window where I saw the old Harvard College on fire, and it was with the utmost difficulty they savd the other Buildings. Stoughton was on fire an Hour, Massachusetts catched in three places, and Hollis Hall is burnt much at the Southwest corner, there was nothing saved in old College except...
...rumored that on the morning of Washington's Birthday two Farmington girls walked through the crowd of students gathered about the fence on a wager. - Yale News. We never saw any students gathered about a fence on a wager. From the text we are unable to judge whether the girls, or the students, or the fence were "on a wager." - Exonian...
...between G. M. Ashe, H., '87, and J. W. Downey was fairly interesting, and was given to the former. W. H. Paine, L. S., and W. Austin, H., '87, fought the next bout, light weight. Paine got groggy early in the bout, and Austin got winded. The third round saw each man falling blindly into the arms of the other, or slashing about with the gloves. A fourth round had to be fought to decide this, and Austin, rallying slightly, was given the bout...
...eighth century. Society was imbued with the rankest spirit of barbarism. There was no security from the lawless bands of robbers. Pillage drove all who had any feelings of duty to the monasteries and cloisters. The glory of Rome as a nation was gone and the bishop of Rome saw an opportunity to raise a powerful church out of the ruins of the Caesars. The ravages of the Huns and the Vandels had made Germany more than other countres the home of desolation. Boniface, fired with an early love of religion and spiritual things, was a young child...