Word: felling
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...That fell destroyer the Columbia College Chess Club has challenged Bowdoin to a correspondence game. Insatiable the lion calls for another lamb to devour...
Students at Harvard printed a circular purporting to be issued by a "Society for the Reform of the Social Habits of Foreigners," and aimed especially at the consumption of Limberger cheese and sour-kraut. The circular fell into the hands of European journalists and was gravely and severely commented on by them. - [Harper's Weekly...
...chapel stories the following from a Yale Ex. takes the supremacy: "When the chapel doors were opened after prayers this morning, the thermometer fell 20 degrees on the campus by reason of the rush of cold...
...Portland paper contains the following anecdote concerning a Harvard professor: "John Quincy Adams was an advocate of early rising. Professor Greenleaf, of the Harvard Law School, was not. One day the ex-president attended lecture, and fell asleep. The professor pointed to him and addressed the class, 'Young gentlemen, behold the effect of early rising.' It is a reminiscence of one of the students...
...Some bills that should have been presented Nov. 1st, the auditor was unable to obtain till the middle of November. Allowance was made for these in the October statement, but the steward's estimate on which the allowance was made fell considerably short of the true amount. The surplus of these bills over the allowance is charged to the November account...