Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that identical umbrella was delivered at my room express charges prepaid. With difficulty recovering from my astonishment, I sought for some explanation of this remarkable circumstance. There was only my name written on a piece of white paper, and the endorsement "Paid 50c.' At last I noticed a newspaper slip pasted inside the white paper. It was a piece of a Sunday Herald, headed "President Eliot's Essay on Religion." Here was, without doubt, the cause of this return to righteousness...
...certain extent, rendered unfit for exercise and even dangerous to those who practice there, I think we may fairly complain. Last Saturday the floor of the main hall was thoroughly waxed; it is now so slippery that for many purposes it cannot be used. The mattresses and movable appliances slip about, no foothold can be got for jumping or running, and any one, unless he walks carefully, is liable to get a severe fall. There is actually, serious danger of injury; a little slip in leaping, or a failure to alight squarely on the feet from the rings or some...
Then in study, while Harvard certainly has more than its share of men who merely slip along without doing more study than is absolutely necessary, yet it may confidently claim that within its halls there is as much hard work done and as good results obtained as at any other institution of learning in the world. Certainly there are men who spend most of their time in the gymnasium or on Holmes or Jarvis Field, or rowing on the river, but even these do some work in college, or at least those who don't probably wouldn...
...election of two members of the Conference Committee from the freshman class will take place to-day, (Tuesday) from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Sever 10. Each freshman voting will write the name of his two candidates on a slip of paper, and sign his own name. Unsigned ballots will not be counted...
...fall into the hands of quarter-back Beecher of the Yale team, who made a strong run with it toward the Princeton goal line, but was tackled powerfully. Fnally, R. Hodge of Princeton sent it down the field beyond the reach of Yale's full-back. Had not Lamar slipped in his attempt to seize it, a touch-down for Princeton would have been inevitable. But slip he did, and the ball went gracefully up the field under charge of Capt. Peters, who managed to force it over Princeton's goal line. But, as one of Yale's team...