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Word: springing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...During the spring vacation the Glee Club gave twelve concerts, all of which were very successful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 4/20/1877 | See Source »

...understand that the Faculty have decided to make no change this spring in the present arrangement of chapel and recitation hours. On what grounds this decision is based I do not know, but I think it can be taken for granted that their action was influenced by the supposed desire of the students not to have the change made. I say supposed desire, since I venture to assert that this decision does not represent the real desire of a majority of students. I cannot establish this assertion by positive data, but my purpose in writing this is to bring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »

...POSTAL has been sent to our Athletic Association by the Secretary of the New York Athletic Club, which serves both as announcement of their spring games and as invitation to us to join in them. The programme will be found below, and, as can be seen from it, their list of events is very nearly the same as that of our own spring and autumn meetings. It seems to us that it would be an excellent thing for the winners, at all events, of our spring contest (which we understand will take place about May 12), to enter themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »

...eighth annual spring games, open to amateurs, will be held on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 30, 1877 (Decoration Day), for which entries will close Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »

...enough to make him absent-minded, yet one would suppose that a tolerably well-brought-up mule would know that a day in January with the wind blowing at the rate of fifty miles an hour, and the thermometer feeling after the floor, was colder than the spring days of April; but not so my scout. All through the winter he used to put barely coal enough on the fire to keep it from going out, and would leave the door open and me shivering as long as he could. But now mark the change. I wake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCOUT. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »

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