Word: storming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...instead of the Trees of Life and Knowledge, the Holly Tree should flourish unforbidden. Others would have it a meeting place for strangers, such as Massachusetts was turned into during the celebration, as a smoking-room or a reading-room, all these combined. Also, every proposition ended in a storm of "buts" - as they all began with...
Many a man asked himself whether life was worth living when he awoke to the consciousness of a snow-storm in March, yesterday morning...
This week is the dividing line of the two half-years, when society defers to the Lenten season, and the long line of class and society dinners begins. Everybody recognizes this to be the free time of the college year, the calm in the midst of the storm. In spite of the theses which were "sprung" uponsome of us immediately after mid-years, college work now presses very lightly upon us. It sat thus lightly on our shoulders at the beginning of the fall term; but the settlement of ourselves and our winter's work claimed much of our spare...
...match between the club team and the former '86 team resulted in an overwhelming victory for the latter, by the score of 78 to 46. The conditions were 25 birds to a man, each team consisting of four men. In spite of the blinding snow-storm the veterans did some remarkable shooting, breaking, in the last round, 38 out of a possible 40. After the match sweepstake shooting followed, in which the club team braced up and made their visitors pay dearly for their previous victory...
...arrangements such as Felton is provided with, the trouble would be remedied. As spring approaches, the number of visitors to the college increases, and this arrangement would be joyfully received by all parties. The college very generously granted our request in regard to the compressed air cushions for the storm doors of the dormitories: perhaps they will as kindly grant us this petition also, especially as there is much less money to be expended and yet the benefits to be derived are as great...