Word: standings
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Patiently stand by the farm-yard gate...
...fixing the price. The price of the heliotypes was intended to be just the cost. But when the contract was made, Mr. Palmer had not the slightest expectation of selling so many as he has. A slight profit has thus been made, which enables Mr. Palmer to construct the stand in the Library, and furnishes Mr. Sever with a small inducement to undertake their sale...
...Springfield Club made the most generous offers possible. They will furnish a tug for the press, which is to follow the boats; they will erect a grand stand near the finish of the race; provide boat-houses for the crews; furnish prizes for the winners; and give a grand Regatta Ball, which they promise shall excel, in decorations and music, anything ever seen in Springfield. Every prospect for an exciting week is most encouraging. Every college reports a good crew in training. The Freshman Ball Tournament will last a week. The city will be crowded with students from twelve colleges...
...some time, he returned to England, and took up his residence for life on his country estate. It is this part of his life, perhaps, which is most interesting, for we have here presented to us a character supposed to be almost extinct, - the country gentleman. Mr. Hughes may stand as a representative of the most thoroughly developed Englishman; manly to the last degree, taking a vigorous interest in every reform, bringing up his children with reverence for Church and State, and for their own minds and bodies, and preserving among the poorer inhabitants of his vicinity that almost unattainable...
...students. This, among those who make any claims to being religious men, is of as high a character as at other colleges. Certainly, men do not pretend to religion from selfish motives, nor is their piety a hot-house growth. They profess religion because they believe it, and stand by it all the better for the lack of a forcing temperature. The College is a little world by itself, and the bad influences of a world are here, and the good also...