Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is much complaint of the action of the managers of the Boston ball grounds on Saturday in charging for admission to the grand stand. It has been the custom to admit students to the stand without extra charge...
...fell at Shiloh. His piece was entitled "The Lost Cause," and was an eloquent, highly rhetorical, and truly Southern defence of his people. Mr. Leonard is a New Yorker, and chose for his subject "William Lloyd Garrison," his oration being a review of the same question from a Northern stand-point and a vindication of the anti-slavery movement. Fifteen years after the bitter conflict has closed students from the opposing sections defend, on a New England college platform, each his own side of the conflict, and the faculty of the college, as loyal during the war to the Union...
...best records in bicycling in this country stand : 1-mile time : 2m. 58 5/8s. 2-mile time : 6m. 21 3/4s. 5-mile time : 16m. 10 3/4s...
...amount of evil which such a negative position can work in a short time is incalculable. It may not be well to shout loud and weak temperance projects, - that is far from the best way of bringing about the desired result. But if we would take a more positive stand, if we would all cease to regard with a smile the rehearsal of a man's loss of self respect, if the time should come when a man shall no longer consider that he is advancing himself in social esteem by allowing himself to forget his manliness, but that...
...into execution. Certainly enough generous supporters of the foot-ball team will be found to liquidate this debt for them. Furthermore, we trust it will not be found impossible, on account of the cost, to adopt the Crimson's plan for the erection of a ladies' grand stand with some suitable covering or awning. The adoption of some similar plan for Jarvis, also, is, we think, a much needed improvement...