Word: styles
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...primed with the stock books on Harvard, I had exalted ideas of accomplishing great deeds on land and water. I first essayed football. One afternoon sufficed to convince me that I was not a second Herbert Leeds, and that frequent collisions with mother earth were not becoming to my style of beauty. To this day my neck has not recovered from the twist it received that afternoon when I rolled on Holmes Field beneath Harrington...
...house was at the foot of a mountain, built of rough logs (that is, the house, not the mountain), and plainly finished in the Grecian style of architecture. Within were three apartments, two bedrooms and a parlor, in which latter room we did our cooking. I had purchased a gas-stove in San Francisco. This room had two windows, and between was a place just large enough for my Chickering grand, - a pleasant surprise from papa upon our arrival. We had no neighbors within twelve miles. Our one servant was a converted Indian. Instead of scalping after the ordinary manner...
...ball soon returned to its old place, close to Columbia's goal. In a few minutes Kent kicked one of his wonderful goals from the field, and Harvard secured still another touch-down, Clarke being the lucky man. Keith kicked a goal from this touch-down in fine style. When time was called, the score stood, Harvard, 3 goals and 1 touch-down; Columbia, 0. For Harvard, Thacher and Foster played remarkably well. Clarke and Atkinson also did good service. Keith kicks goals from place-kicks finely, and Kent is a worthy successor to Winsor. The playing of Henny...
...College papers please copy, with the addition, "This low, dastardly, ill-bred attack is only a mark of the idiotic brain which invented it. Such vile, underhanded reptilian onslaughts can only have proceeded from a narrow, bigoted, Pharisaical fool." That, we think, is the usual style...
MAUD. What doggerel! you should improve your style...