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Word: whether (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Haven, on Monday night, another mass meeting was called to decide whether or no the committee's adverse report should be accepted. It was accepted almost unanimously. All the Yale graduates who were consulted on the subject - among them Wyllys Terry, Walter Camp, George Adee, Walter Badger, and Sam Bremner - were opposed to the scheme; and their opposition seems to have converted all those who had previously inclined the other way. Like the chicken who was convinced that the sky was falling, when a rose leaf dropped upon her back, the dim suspicion of an "alliance" between Harvard and Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Refuses | 2/23/1887 | See Source »

...paradise is but a place of laughter and rest, and all our labor under the sun has for sole object rest and joy, whether of satisfied ambition, or of power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/21/1887 | See Source »

...first mathematical seminar of the second half year is held this afternoon in U. 19 at 4 p.m. Mr. Markley will discuss a Riemann's surface. All students of the university who are interested in mathematices are invited to attend these conferences whether they wish to participate in the discussion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/17/1887 | See Source »

There will be a meeting in Boylston Hall this evening to decide whether Harvard will withdraw from the Inter-collegiate Base-Ball Association and enter a new association with Yale and Princeton. Every one in college who is at all interested in base-ball should make it a point to attend this meeting if possible. A very important step is proposed, and it should be decided upon only after a full discussion of the subject. This question has been under consideration for some time by those who have the base-ball interests of the college most at heart. After mature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/16/1887 | See Source »

...seniors in former years. Last year '89 paid $753, and '86 the same. It is hoped that all who can subscribe will do so, any sum, however small, being acceptable. The club is now, as I said, free of debt, and it rests wholly with the college to say whether it shall remain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Report of the Boat Club. | 2/15/1887 | See Source »

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