Word: summer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tassin contributes a poem in blank verse, entitled "A Summer's Gift." It has the merit of being simple and unpretentious, and its metaphors are appropriate, though not especially original...
Paul Buckley, being first duly sworn, deposes and says, that he is acquainted with Knowlton L. Ames of Chicago, Illinois, now a student at Princeton college, and that he played ball with said Ames in the summer of 1889, and that during said summer said Ames has to his personal knowledge received money for his service for ball playing; on one occasion the money for his services in a game between the "West Ends" and the "Whitings," (both of the Chicago City League), being paid to him, said Ames, directly by said Buckley; on another occasion said Buckley...
...Emmet, H. H. Harris, L. H. Davis, A. N. Sargent, L. K. Perot, E. L. Kenyon, W. Wells. After the business meeting Mr. J. B. Woodworth gave a short address descriptive of the method of work pursued by the United States Geological Survey at Gay Head last summer...
...Yale gymnasium will hardly be finished in time to be of service during the summer...
...those of us who are beginning to realize that the promised improvements which were to result from the new janitor system are a delusion and a snare, the second editorial strikes a responsive chord. The better service which we have all summer been persuading ourselves we were to have this year has not yet materialized. And a great many of us miss the old janitors; they understood our ways better than these new comers, and we resent a change which has not conduced in the least to our comfort or convenience...