Word: state
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MEETING of the Cricket Club was held last Wednesday afternoon. The club voted to join the State Association of Cricket Players, and to send as delegates to the meeting of the association Mr. Spinney of '74 and Mr. J. G. King of '75. It was also voted not to use the "crease" until, in the opinion of the President of the Club, the ground is in a fit condition. Messrs. Dwight of '74, Wilby of '75, and R. W. Curtis of '76 were appointed a committee to solicit members and subscriptions. Mr. W. C. Riggs was elected Freshman Director...
...Baltic. An example comes to our mind of a candidate for admission to Harvard College giving the width of the Amazon River at its mouth as about two miles, and the length of the Mississippi as ten thousand miles; another confidently affirmed Maine to be a coffee-growing State. We recently saw a paper directed to the Reading-room "Herveford College...
...bedside, lamenting the state of his mind in such strife...
...present state of things is a marked change from what it was two years ago. Then, it is true, the gas burned in the entries till only half past ten; but a full blaze could be got at any part of the night in the basements. Now the brightest light in many of the buildings is only a glimmer, that hardly serves to make the darkness visible...
...neglect by those having the highest authority in the matter, we will simply state the fact that we have now been members of the Club nearly three years, and that during this time not a single member of the Faculty has entered the place where the constitutions, the manners, and, in some degree, the characters of one half the young men intrusted to their care were being formed...