Word: springly
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...Captain of the Foot-Ball Club has received an answer from Columbia. They will be unable to play us this spring, owing to the impossibility of getting up a twenty during the boating season. They express a wish, however, to play us in the fall...
...sporting organizations in College, and is deserving of better support than it has ever received. The popularity of the game is increasing in this country, and it becomes of more importance each year for us to have a good eleven in the field. The success of the Eleven last spring was very creditable; and, if money is forthcoming, the Eleven this season bids fair to be quite as good as last year's. Comparatively little has been done for the support of the Club by any class now in College, either with men or money. Not one cent has been...
Should stir the bush, when spring is near...
...related, on the authority of Ovid and Diodorus, that Hercules once attacked a monstrous snake called Hydra, which had nine heads, and if any of them was cut off, two others would spring up to take its place. The only way to stop these heads from growing was by burning them off. I don't believe this story, but merely quote it here because it is an exact parallel to the story of my mustache...
...return of spring, or rather of the first phenomenon which admonishes us of its approach, - early prayers, - brings with it, to the closely confined student, the temptation and the opportunity to break loose from his hibernal retirement, and to spend at least some portion of his existence in fresh air and sunlight...