Word: stood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...negative 21. Mr. J. McG. Goodale, '85 opened the debate for the affirmative, and Mr, C. P. Robinson, '85, for the neggative: the other principal disputants were Mr. S. Storrow, '87, affirmative, and Mr. S. D. Richardson '86. The vote on the strength of arguments of these disputants stood affirmative, 6, negative, 22. When the debate was thrown open to the house, the following gentlemen spoke from the floor: Messrs. Duane, '88, Hobson, '86, Jennings, '85. Hammerslough, '88, Griffin, '88, Rich, '87, Carrier, '85. The vote on the merits of the debate as a whole, stood, affirmative, 4; negative...
...game between Yales and New Yorks Wednesday, was brought to a close by rain in the third inning. The score at that time stood 6 to 0 in favor of the New Yorks...
...Irving, as he stood before his audience last evening, differed but little from the Irving with whom all have become familiar upon the stage. His tones were the same which have been so often heard behind the footlights: his delivery was marked by the same careful enunciation and emphasis which lends it its peculiar charm. In the subject matter of his lecture there was much that was of necessity somewhat trite, but the sombre current of the subject was lightened by many gleams of anecdote and wit. At many passages in which the lecturer rose to the height of true...
...wonderful visions in his sleep; and when in a tone of conscious superiority, he tells me of them, I become so jealous as almost to grow to hate him. Why, a short time ago he dreamed of the end of the world; and the rocks were cleft, as he stood before the old University library at Cambridge. Suddenly the earth yawned, and there bustled out of the chasm, with a roar from a long silver trumpet, and the tintinnabulous sound of bells, the archangel, clad in white robes of dazzling brilliancy. From Thayer and Matthews and Hollis and Weld...
...seemed to my self to be wakened from a deep sleep. A being not of this world stood by my bedside. "Come," he said, "I am to show you all classes and conditions of men tonight." I followed him and he kept his word; but the knowledge of only one class remains fixed indelibly upon my memory, and this alone I can describe. We were in the vicinity of a great university. We entered an old-fashioned hedge-surrounded house and found ourselves in an apparently well-stocked library. A large open fire-place yawned at its opposite...