Word: augusts
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...BURNING August afternoon on Lake Winnepesaukee, hardly a ripple stirred, no sound of life but the monotonous chirp-chirp from the woody shores, and the lapsing water-beats on the white sand...
...nuisances of themselves (in my estimation at least) at our hotel. On this afternoon, at any rate, she had left behind a dozen unhappy and vindictive admirers, in order to explore, in my company, what little portion of Lake Winnepesaukee we could hope to cover easily in the hot August sunshine. Thus it came about that we were under the trees by the lakeside, very happy...
...this purpose into only six sections, whereas heretofore it was divided into eight. The argument is made that the professors of Latin and Greek have tried a similar experiment, and have found it successful. As the German department has at present no head, or rather will have none after August 31, an assistant professor is to take the Freshmen next year. There are several considerations which the writer would most respectfully submit to the authorities with regard to this proposed change...
...that Boylston is to be removed, so as to make a straight-away coast for the Cambridge children from the hill in front of the President's house to Wadsworth house; and that the Bursar proposes to lease the land for a grazing tract during the months of July, August, and September, and that the Faculty have voted to let the students use it for a lawn tennis ground from October until the snow is eight inches deep. That settles...
Though this communication is already too long, I would ask in conclusion that you reprint the closing words of the letter to which the Nation of August 5 gave up two and a half columns of its space. After demonstrating the falsity of the facts which several writers had alleged against the "observation train," and the fallacy of the conclusions based upon them, I asserted concerning the arrangements actually used in running the train, that "no one of the managers has yet seen any reason to doubt that this is the best possible plan, or to hesitate about adhering...