Word: solum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Omne solum forti patria est, ut piscibus aequor...
...athletic record made by the college scribes has rendered the present year unique in the history of Harvard journalism. "Non vi mentis solum, sed vi corporis" has had practical demonstration in the victories won by the journalistic teams. The CRIMSON crew and the CRIMSON nine have carved for themselves a very respectaniche in fame...
...young gentleman's evening's amusement. Canning, writing a dutiful, though stilted, letter to his uncle from Oxford, memtioned quite casually that, returning from a political debate at the coffee-house, he and six friends had fallen in with two watchmen who, as the result of this encounter, turpe solum tetigere mento. Even the decorous Charles Greville tells us how, after dinning at White's, he had a spar with some bobbies in the Haymarket, and scampered home, leaving his hat in their possession, when they had sprung their rattle and got reinforcements. These were discreditable traits in English manners...