Word: walking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...spite of eloquent appeals to the Dean and carefully worded petitions to the Faculty, I have been suspended (they are very strict at Harvard now). Conclude to spend my vacation abroad. Walk into the Cunard Office, and carelessly demand the best berth in the next steamer. They tell me graciously that I can be accommodated in the steamer sailing three weeks from date, and not before...
...result is satisfactory to none but the gallant sons of Columbia, and, even in their case, we are confident that the gentlemanly spirit of rivalry which is characteristic of them would have prompted them to prefer a fair trial of superiority with their two most formidable rivals to the walk-away race they had of it after the Yale-Harvard foul...
...result of the foot-races for the Bennett prizes would be most humiliating to Harvard had she ever given any encouragement to this branch of athletic sports. As it is, the result shows that she cannot expect to walk away with beautiful silver prizes by sending a few practically untrained men at the last moment, without even knowing whether they are the best men to represent her or not. We hope this most interesting department of athletics may be given more prominence another year, with the addition of leaping and throwing contests; and that Harvard. if she does anything, will...
Down stairs, for a bit of a walk...
...thinking of my love, I walk the street...