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Word: thinge (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Fresh. No. 1, (running up to F. No, 2.) "Say, Smith, I've just heard the strangest thing! I can't really believe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strange But Too True! | 11/12/1884 | See Source »

...well, while Peabody tackled splendidly. The halfbacks were, however, lamentably weak in kicking, apparently using very little head word. The centre rush should snap the ball back without wasting so much time, and the quarterback should take in the situation better and know more surely what is the correct thing to do with the ball. If the rush line had not talked so much to the referee and to their opponents their play would have been better than any of their previous work this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Trip to Canada. | 11/12/1884 | See Source »

...love of exercise, but more from a mere sense of duty. Such men, unfortunately are not few. We see them at regular hours in the gymnasium, doing everything in a mechanical sort of way. They are doubtless benefited, and perhaps considerably benefited, by this gymnasium exercise. But such a thing gets monotonous; the body is active, but the mind becomes uninterested. Mechanical exercise may be very good, but it is not merely as beneficial as modes of exercise which are for something additional to merely physical development. My meaning is just this. A man might. knock a tennis ball about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Physical Recreations Among College Men. | 11/8/1884 | See Source »

...there is any one thing which characterizes a Harvard student it is his utter ignorance of and indifference towards all objects of interest connected with the college, to say nothing of his apathy towards Cambridge's many historical monuments, to see which hosts of people annually make long pilgrimages. How many are there who have an idea of where the trophy room is? How many can with certainty locate the far famed annex? Well, some day we hope to pay a visit to these and many other points of interest, but today we will confine ourselves to the Curiosity Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Curiosity Room in the Library. | 11/6/1884 | See Source »

...Harvard torchlight parade, like Minerva, appears not to have been a thing of slow development and growth. It was born in full panoply of plug hat, black bottle, and a uniform that was unique in political demonstrations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Torchlight Processions of the Past. | 11/3/1884 | See Source »

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