Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIR: I have been thinking of late of going to Princeton to College. I am tutoring now at Cambridge, with the idea of entering Harvard, and Cumnock thinks I am going to enter sure next year, but they don't seem to want to do much for me. Now I have to have help wherever I go. I saw Bruny Willard the other day and he wanted me to write you he thinks P. is the place to go I have played fast [foot?] ball at Exeter for two years no doubt you have heard of me while...
...adduced as evidence in support of the charge against the officers of the Harvard Association, is the following extract: "I am tutoring now at Cambridge with the idea of entering Harvard, and Cumnock thinks I am going to enter sure next year, but they don't seem to want to do much...
...negative. Silver, he said, has driven gold out of every country that has at any time in its history adopted the less precious metal as a monetary standard and we have no right to assume that the contrary would be the case here. The class, moreover, that wants free coinage is so small that to protect it is to encourage a monopoly. The United States has made several attempts to induce other countries to enter into an agleement fixing the relative value of gold and silver, but these efforts have been entirely fruitless. For most of these nations have tried...
...want the Golden Apple Mr. Williams and Club...
...dispute that they played a better game. But the cry of brutes-based on Donnelly's and general rough play; knave-based on the calling to Princeton of other than regular students; and of liar-based on the conduct of playing Ames-goes up on all sides. And we want to know how much there really is in it. Later there is a mass meeting of Harvard, preconcerted and encouraged by Princeton's rival, Yale, in which proposition is made to withdraw from the foot ball league at once, and which ends luckily in the withdrawal of Harvard, to take...