Word: stay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...took possession of a special parlor car attached to the 4.30 New York express. The journey was made comfortably and without any marked incidents. On the arrival of the party at New York coaches were taken for the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where the club made its headquarters during its stay. The first performance was given on Monday evening, the 12th, in the theatre of the University Club. The auditorium was densely crowded, and the audience was a most appreciative one. The performance was successful, and exceedingly favorable comments on the play were printed in the Tribune, Sun, and Herald...
FRESHMAN NINE. The candidates for the freshman nine will stay in Cambridge during the recess...
...explained. As soon as '87 leaves college the lacrosse players also leave, for most of these are from that class. Suppose we do go into the game again, the probabilities are that we drop out at the end of the next season. If this is the case, why not stay out once...
Moreover, such a punishment will thwart the very end for which men commonly crib. Those who try to pass their examinations unfairly, do so because they wish to stay here. For this reason also, suspension or a milder punishment is too light; for a man will take some risk if her knows that in case of detection he will lose only a few months here. But if it were generally understood that the slightest attempt at unfairness, if discovered, would be followed by speedy and absolutely certain dismissal, few would care to make the venture...
...During my stay in Boston last spring, men engaged in legal practice spoke to me of the great value of the law-teaching at Harvard University. Mr. Sidney Bartlett, the Father of the Massachusetts Bar, told me that the three-years' course at Harvard was equal to seven years' work in an office. Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Dr. Eliot, President of the university, spoke to the same effect. Dr. Eliot related with pardonable pride that at a recent dinner of old Harvard men a prominent young advocate had declared that, when he was a student, he had often...