Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...quite natural that they should be passed over as unworthy of attention. The audience, too, on Jarvis Field is generally large and enthusiastic, and encourages the weary limbs of the contestants by frequent applause. Sometimes in University there is no audience; sometimes there is a small one in the shape of a venerable old gentleman, with those accompaniments which are supposed to belong to one of the old school, - gold-headed cane, gold spectacles, polished forehead, etc. He is rarely openly enthusiastic, and is never wildly demonstrative. His emotions of pleasure and disgust he generally keeps to himself. Occasionally...
...yield a return in proportion to the outlay. This is true even when a college is victorious, and peculiarly so in our College; for regattas, while they have never been a source of glory to us, have never failed to leave behind them a powerful reminder in the shape of a good-sized debt on our rowing association...
...time attract them. Consolation of a more tangible sort is out of the question. Your allowance is quite as large as the family means will allow; so, during the course of the year, you will probably have to go through a good deal of pecuniary tribulation in the shape of accounts and economies of various kinds. But however bothered you may be about the best way to make both ends meet, don't complain aloud. A man who is known to be in want of cash is very apt to find himself in want of friends too; but a person...
...absent without bringing penalties down upon our heads. The rise from fifty permitted absences to seventy-two is not really a great one, but it serves for a guide-post to mark our way. The road we are travelling is a rough one. Barriers in the shape of prejudice and custom delay us; still our progress is steady. On calling his roll, the other day, an instructor remarked that the process took up time that might be employed much more profitably. He held out hopes that the time was not far distant when it might be done away with entirely...
...that instant the man we spoke of came, and was passing between me and the old and nearly forgotten well, and strongly I pressed against him and he fell. A howling gust swept the field, and, folded in the darkness of the Shape, I was hurried through the air." The apparition stopped...