Word: blunders
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...motion by stumbling over some jutting sentence in a book he was loitering through. Or sometimes it was a derangement in his own bodily economy that set his fancy going, and it is wonderful into what a fairyland of agreeable and even profound suggestion he contrived to blunder, through the bypath of a pain in the stomach or a fall from his horse. Montaigne more than any other, perhaps, carried the substance of his thread, as the spider does, in himself, and each of his Essays is a kind of web wherein to entangle every winged thing (of the smaller...
...lesson by its steady loyalty to the team even after the realization that a mistake was being made in the handling of the men. The defeat must have emphasized the same lesson upon the foot ball men and our graduate advisors. So it is safe to say that the blunder of this year cannot be repeated. The thing to do now is to go forward united and stronger than ever to the victory which we can and will win next fall...
...notice of Mr. Leavitt, who was conducting the sale. The manager of the eleven and Mr. Leavitt regret exceedingly that this happened. Mr. Leavitt, who has sold the foot ball and base ball tickets without charge for ten years as an accommodation, is especially sorry for this his first blunder...
...photographs of seniors loaned to the publishers of the Portfolio will be returned, as far as possible, this week. Owing to a blunder of the workmen a number of the cards were mutilated. These photographs will be returned as soon as they can be obtained from Pach Bros. These photographs, in good condition, excepting that a part of the mounting card has been cut off, will be sold at a nominal figure at 14 Stoughton...