Word: spinning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Columbia. - This College has organized a Hare and Hounds Club, which have weekly runs, their last being over 12 miles in length. There are now several packs organized in New York with large memberships, and there is no better fun or better training than a good long spin after two good hares. One would think that the University and Freshmen crews would start some such thing, and meet once or twice a week. It is most splendid and thorough exercise, and far better for these men than plodding up to Fresh Pond or elsewhere at one uniform...
...sitting up for the first time, and in as much as I can't smoke and won't read, because it makes my head spin so confoundedly, the long, dull hours of the afternoon have dragged very wearily. I got my sofa moved to the window, where I had a prospect down the Yard. But as an all-day spectacle the Yard is not a success. I'm going home to-morrow to convalesce, and I rejoice, meanwhile, to watch the hurrying to recitation of those whom the rainy weather has not induced to cut. Presently this little bustle...
...palace spiders spin...
...religious societies here has published a pamphlet, showing that, on the principles of the gyroscope, we are liable every time we dance and get to whirling fast to whop over on to our heads and spin there...