Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...early showed a great taste for the literature of the past, and longed to fit for college. Neither my father nor Father Reilly wished me to go to the Public Schools, on account of the low standard of social position. I studied by myself. By blacking boots, I earned enough to buy Bohn's translation of the Iliad, and was entranced with the beauty of that noble poem. I entered in 1876, and since then I have done nothing but study. I have left college only once, and that was on St. Patrick's Day, when my father's society...
...COLLEGE student, in rendering to his father an account of his term expenses, inserted, "To charity, thirty dollars." His father wrote back: "I fear charity covers a multitude of sins...
...impertinent, young man," said she. "You must be more respectful, or I will give a bad account of you on the Last...
...extremely doubtful. Skill in dodging would scarcely be of use at all, for if a man once got the ball it would be far easier for him to get through the opposing team than at present; and there would be no use for a light, agile player, as, on account of the small team, it would be absolutely necessary to pick men for their ability to stop a rusher. A slip on a muddy spot at a critical moment, or a thousand other accidents, would be far more influential in determining the result of a game than they...
...final heat of the mile-race was between Messrs. Swan and Sturgis, '81. The former won by beautiful riding, in 3 m. 22 1/8 sec., - remarkable time, when the bad weather and sharp turns are taken into account...