Word: downs
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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No one will be allowed to play at Lacrosse or Tennis with the balls from the bowling-alleys, or to use them in any way except by placing them gently on the alley and suffering them to roll down the alley by their own weight.
"With the third book the Dunciad properly ends. But Pope was induced to add a fourth, which, like every Annex, contributes no beauty itself, and impairs the strength and effect of the rest." (This brings down the house.)
A GOOD deal of trouble has been given lately to the Secretaries of numerous College associations, by the apparently malicious removal of notices of meetings; &c., from the trees in the neighborhood of the Yard. But some one saw a member of that extremely able, civil, and energetic body, the...
In the first place, the number of men who have plenty of money during the years which follow their graduation is comparatively small. The great majority need all the money which they can get to enable them to pursue their professional studies and to establish themselves in the world. It...
There is much that is contradictory and paradoxical about the Harvard man. He will discourse mellifluously through the day on the subject of Sweetness and Light and the Demoralizing Tendencies of American Life, and then will spend the evening smashing glass in a variety theatre. He is great in theories...