Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshmen have good reason to feel encouraged by the game last Saturday, for, although the errors were some of them bad, the general work of the team was excellent, the batting especially being very good. Adams was weakened by a new catcher, who, notwithstanding the swift pitching he had to face and his split thumb, caught very pluckily to the end of the game. Taylor, Gallivan, Holden and Austin did good work in the field for the freshmen, Austin at one time striking out three men in succession when the bases were full. The batting of Holden, Stetson, Hallowell...
...works of Addison through a lack of time, that poem should possess a higher literary value than any poetry that Dr. Samuel Johnson ever wrote. The work of English VII. is intended to examine the authors of a century. That century covered the lives of such writers as Swift, Addison, Steele, Young, Thomson, Richardson, Fielding, and Smollet, of whom no notice has been taken in the work of the course. While the great beauty and grandeur of the "Vanity of Human Wishes" is very striking, we question if the poem merits, to the exclusion of many other notable literary works...
...next I remember I was running over a long straight road. The snow was under my feet and beating against me. Behind there were men following, silent and swift, while I could hear myself panting for breath. How the wind held me back! I knew they were gaining, yet I could not run faster. My feet seemed like lead. I only staggered over the ground. Still my pursuers came on. Now they were up with me. They were reaching out their hands...
UNIV OF VT.- Messrs. Hopkins and Swift...
...large is very rich. If you look sharp you will see a small book of Ben Johnson's with this characteristic phrase: Sum Ben Jonsonii. It would take too much space to give even an incomplete list of autographs; here are a few: John Locke, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, William Wordsworth, Robt. Burns, Emanuel Kant, John Dryden, Walter Scott, Edmund Burke. The manuscripts are of still greater interest. A Latin poem by John Milton; a musical composition of Haydn's; a letter from George Washington to Gen. Schuyler; an official document of the Confederate States signed by Jeff. Davis...