Word: springing
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Scotch football teams are to visit this country, and have strangely chosen next spring as an appropriate time...
...PURSE. - SPRING MEETING OF THE AMERICAN MACHINE...
...legislative act providing that non-residents may be eligible to the office of Overseer. This question of eligibility has been discussed since 1873, when one of the Overseers thought of removing from the State. The matter was brought forward prominently by the Harvard Club of New York, last spring, and finally they have been successful. It is easy to see the advantage of this step. It will tend to increase the patronage of the University, to remove those evils which beset all close corporations, and to make the influence of Harvard national rather than sectional...
...poems have the widest range of subjects. In many of them, Nature is handled lovingly. "Daffy Down Dilly" is filled with the very essence of spring. "One misty, moisty morning" might prove a model of vividness and brevity to the many "word-painters" of the present day. Others have sought and found many hidden meanings in the rhymes of this Charlestown singer. According to some of these, "Solomon Grundy" is an epitome of Shakspere's seven ages of man. Another has found a foreshadowing of homoeopathy in the story of the man who sought in brambles a cure for wounds...
...every respect satisfactory. As had been expected, Harvard won nearly every event in which its representatives were entered, taking eleven prizes. The conclusions to be drawn from this result are easily seen. More men have trained this year than ever before, while the system of Class games instituted this spring for the first time, drew out many men who have heretofore kept aloof. By this means, the chance of winning prizes has been greater than ever before, and competitors have been induced to work hard in the hope of being sent to represent us at Mott Haven. The chief feature...