Word: case
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...such glances, that settled it. I could not help breaking my vow only to marry a girl with a million dollars and one lung. Soon she left the shop, and as I hurried past the counter where she had been standing I saw a card on the show-case. I seized it and followed, but when I reached the street she had disappeared. Looking at the card I had picked up, I read, "Miss Rosalie Rosehorn, 323 Ham Street." I was disappointed at first, but after reflecting that Ham Street was situated in the English quarter of the city...
...colleges represented in such an association, and that there be no ill-feeling toward any one in particular. We think it would be advisable to have some stated amount as a guarantee for the appearance of a club, so as to avoid any trouble like that in Amherst's case...
...rules as the cap or the belt which the Advocate speaks of, then Princeton would be champion were it not for one consideration. The belt, which the Advocate takes by way of illustration (unless there are express agreements and conditions concerning it) is held subject to challenge. In the case of the title to the championship there are no agreements and conditions; and Yale has challenged Princeton, and Princeton has refused the challenge, thus forfeiting the title which would be hers if we granted that the championship is determined by the rules which the Advocate applies. Thus, in whichever...
...afterwards became famous in almost every walk of life. Harvard, in this respect, is sadly lacking, one reason being that our athletic prominence extends no farther back than half a generation; but it is necessary to make a beginning in this respect. This was done in the case of the ball nine in 1878, and of the races last year. Tablets recording the first three class races were placed in the Gymnasium, and it was hoped that the custom, once started, would not be allowed to fall into disuse. But, either owing to oversight or negligence, no record...
...presence would be merely tolerated rather than welcomed. A flat refusal to superintend the proposed race on any conditions whatever was only prevented by a desire to avoid an appearance of incivility in the face of a public which could not be expected to understand the difficulties of the case. Perhaps the last straw which turned the balance was the dislike of the managers to say "No" when one of the applicants from Harvard was "a New London boy;" but they clearly kept in mind the theory that this first Freshman race was an experiment, and that, unless it proved...