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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...form one index to show student work. Here are over 300,000 volumes and a third as many pamphlets which are here for use. They are not kept like the old lady's umbrella, which she boasted she had had for twenty-seven years, "and it's never been wet yet." Some libraries are kept like that. But here they wish to see books worn out, so far as honest use will wear them. New atlases, dictionaries, encyclopedias, speedily grow ragged, and the bookbinder has a tremendous bill every month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notes from Harvard College. | 12/7/1887 | See Source »

...Score 10.0. Dewey ran out from twenty-yard line and Perry carried the ball back on kick of Graham to twenty-yard line. Boyden advanced ten yards. On fumble, Bancroft secured a touchdown. Saxe kicked a beautiful goal, although a high wind was blowing and the ball was very wet and heavy. Score 16-0. Hume ran, but was stopped, and Harvard took the ball on four downs. Saxe and Wood ran, and then Saxe made a long punt over Pennsylvania's line. Our rushers should have fallen on ball here, which would have obviated the necessity of having...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball. | 11/21/1887 | See Source »

There was no attempt made to line the fair lines until 3 o'clock, when the game should have been called. This took time, and game was finally called at 3.30 with the fair lines still wet and slippery, and pegs a foot high stuck all over the field, which Mr. Carpenter and I went round and pulled up. This was sufficiently careless, but one of the Tech half-backs found the leaving of a marking string lying across the field more dangerous still when he took a header over it during the game. Home plate, as I said before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/14/1887 | See Source »

...large number of spectators who were attracted to Jarvis Field, in spite of the wet ground and cloudy sky, show clearly what a strong interest is felt in the prospects of Harvard College in the coming contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Candidates for the Eleven Begin Practice. | 9/30/1887 | See Source »

...examination. Go to bed earlier than usual whether you know anything or not. It is better to know less and be able to express it in the blue book than to know more, and be too muddled and tired to remember it. This working until breakfast with a wet towel around your head is very romantic when you tell it to your sympathizing lady friends, but it is of no use in actual practise. Finally don't study up to the last moment. Take a good breakfast then take a shave and a quiet smoke between...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/28/1887 | See Source »

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