Word: could
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...athletes into a run of fifteen miles, with a notice of a course of "about six miles," some more definite idea of the distance be given. Would it not be well to name the place furthest off (for instance, Waverley) that the course would touch, so that a man could have some idea of what is before him? However, the two meets have been very successful, and we congratulate the Athletic Association on the success of their revival of Hare and Hounds...
...have been expected. But if the fire had broken out on the ground-floor during the night, great loss of property, and perhaps of life, would have been inevitable. The ladders, which figured so prominently in the Bursar's letter to the Advertiser last year, and which he stated could be put in use in less than five minutes, were found to be so carefully strapped down that it was more than ten minutes before they could be placed in position. The Cambridge Fire Department was as inefficient as can well be imagined. Late to arrive, they went to work...
Granting that there is a need for such a journal as he seeks to establish, is not the editor, from a literary point of view, wholly unfit for his position? He is understood to have the support and approbation of the President and Faculty, yet could even its youngest member read the pompous prospectus without blushing for his representative...
...Freshmen, just like a tadpole tries to be a frog. They have to learn all sorts of things, - Ethics and Dentistry and Agriculchar, and another kind of culchar that they learn in the pretty building with the bell. Among other things, they have to learn Geography. Now I never could remember all those colors on the map, - could you? Green for Arizona and blue for Oregon. I have a pair of - Oh! bless me, I quite forgot - so I 've thought of a way to interest the poor little things. Make nice pretty verses about all the places, and they...
...play "Drink" is so contrived that it keeps out the objectionable features of "L'Assommoir," which make it unfit for representation, and loses the dramatic and realistic merits of the novel. The chief feature of the play is the delirium tremens scene, which is as repulsive as any one could desire. "Drink" will be presented every night at 7.45, and Saturday at 2, until further notice...