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Word: devotee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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THE editors of the Ariel announce that, in future, they intend to make it "emphatically a students' paper." The resolution is a wise one, for the Ariel, though always well written, would certainly be more exciting if it would devote less space to articles on "classical culture" and other kindred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

I WAS very much surprised by the illiberal tone of a letter in your last paper, on the subject of lawn-tennis. Not only did the writer disapprove of the game, but he seemed to advocate violent measures for compelling those who like it to devote themselves to rowing instead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAWN TENNIS AGAIN. | 4/19/1878 | See Source »

We would also like to call attention to the grumblers, a class whose opinion on base-ball is usually of little worth; they are ever complaining of our defeats, taking it as a matter of course that we ought always to win, and never considering that the clubs who beat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/19/1878 | See Source »

ALLOW me a little space to expostulate, not illnaturedly I hope, on a kind of Athletics that seems to be gaining ground very fast at Harvard. I mean to say Lawn Tennis. There are now four clubs, and perhaps five, that have come into existence here this year. These clubs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAWN TENNIS-CLUBS. | 4/5/1878 | See Source »

WE print this week an article on Music at Harvard that expresses a feeling quite common (as we are well aware) among us here, - that the Glee Club would do well to confine itself to singing college songs, and that it should not attempt anything so difficult as a real...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/5/1878 | See Source »

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