Word: woode
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Columbia crews are practicing this year in Wood's gymnasium. Their old one was inadequate to their needs...
...situation of Harrow is singularly pleasant and suitable for a school. Although the town is only ten or twelve miles from London, the green meadows and hills, the beautiful woods and streams, in fact the typical English landscape, so often set forth in the English novel, makes it seem impossible that the great metropolis should be so near. Harrow is by nature admirably suited for either recreation or study. The school buildings are located on the brow and slope of a high hill, commanding an extensive prospect on all sides. From the summit, part of six counties are visible...
...opposing parties, and every man is given a fixed position on a large field, from which he tries his utmost to achieve glory and victory for his side. The game consists in alternately running, hurling a wooden ball, and the so-called "base," which is a heavy block of wood, covered with leather. The chief player is obliged to wear a sort of fencing mask and coat of armor to protect him from this "base," which is flung at him with great violence. In one picture can be seen how the finest runner of the Chicagos managed, although he stumbled...
...kleptomaniac who removed from Memorial on Tuesday evening, a silk umbrella, with a brown wood handle, and the owner's name carved on it, will repent and leave it at the Auditor's office, he will be forgiven...
Lost. - Malacca wood cane, with buck horn handle. Finder will please leave at Leavitt & Peirce...