Word: away
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...least 35,000 persons applied for admission to the grounds between 12.30 and 2 o'clock and fully 5000 had to be turned away. More persons paid for admission to the two grand stands than could be accommodated with sea sand these had to take their chances with the howling, cheering crowd which surrounded the ropes on all sides. A great many ladies were present, accompanied by their brothers or escorts and they cheered just as loudly as their male companions...
...monuments have already attracted the attention of lovers of art, and the Romans carried many of them away from Greece to adorn their villas. Their greatest value to us is that they give evidence of a noble and dignified family life in ancient Greece, and show, in contrast to the exaggerated and libelous plays of Aristophanes, that women were honored and respected in Athens while they lived, and mourned for by their families when they died...
Professionalism has been prevalent in Cambridge for years. A number of years ago a committee of the faculty investigated athletics, and found that the members of the nine were away from Cambridge almost one half of the spring term, playing with professionals. This state of affairs caused the faculty to vote that all members of athletic teams should be bona fide students and that there should be no professional coaches...
...teaching. But there was no united national feeling, and the struggles of first one class and then another for freedom ended in nothing. All the sadder was this sixteenth century because even the great man who had called the struggle of faith against dogma into being was himself led away by the strong force of circumstances from the ideas of his early manhood, and brought to sacrifice freedom to authority...
...tickets for the special train, now on sale at Leavitt and Pierce's, will be taken away at 12m., today...