Word: take
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...meeting of the Harvard Nine, held subsequent to its reception, it was decided to accept the challenge, in so far as to acknowledge our desire to meet the Yale Nine in a series of games; but the fixing of the days on which each individual game shall take place was left till some future time. The custom of playing a series of games seems almost entirely to have superseded the single game of former years, and it is, I think, the only true way of testing the respective merits of the two Nines. Leaving out of the question the advantage...
Till we halted to take a colleetion...
...just that a Junior, for example, should, after occupying a room on the lower floor of Thayer for three years, have the privilege of at last securing a more desirable position in the college buildings. But under the present regulations he is excluded from any such privilege, and must take his chances in the general lottery. Even the plan adopted by a few last year of getting a Senior to retain his room, with the view of transferring it to them, is now impracticable, as a Senior would this year be required to sign an agreement to occupy in person...
...succeeded in recollecting a very quiet, unobtrusive fellow, who, while at Cambridge, spends his nights in grinding, and during the day varies the monotony of attending recitations by the same delectable employment. If this be the talk of quiet undergraduates, it is reasonable to suppose that the more demonstrative take a step farther, which brings them at once to the point reached long ago by the author of "Fair Harvard." What wonder that, beyond the vicinity of Boston, a college room is never thought of without the accessories of a cloud of tobacco-smoke, the remains of a dozen...
...experience with his pig was, that when he would drive him to Cork, the pig was determined to take the road to Limerick; and only when his master urged him on, and told him he had chosen the shortest route after all, did the obstinate beast turn himself and take the other road...