Word: soft
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...soft low from fields remote...
...however, that the greater the elevation the more severe the fall. Several of our best men are unable to play in this game, and the rest should carefully see to it that victory does not slip through their fingers from inadvertence, or from any too sanguine notion of a "soft thing." To underrate your opponent is a fatal mistake in war or politics, and may prove disastrous even in foot-ball...
...from soft embarrassment...
...instructors, almost without exception, have favored us during the past week with preliminary remarks." We have been told that this or that elective is not for loafers; that whoever elects this course for a "soft thing" will find himself deceived; that this University has had "enough of culture and too much"; and from another source, that culture is the aim of a University education. The result of all this is, that we are in very nearly the same condition we were a week ago. In one respect we are changed. The leisure time that hung so heavily upon our hands...
...soft light of the past bears the past far away...