Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...athletic sport which had such a good beginning ought certainly to have a good ending. One of the dampening effects on the enthusiasm of the hounds has been the bad scent laid, causing a great deal of annoyance and trouble to the hounds, suffering as they did, a sudden chill when the excitement of the chase was relaxed for any considerable length of time. In December weather the hares cannot be over-particular in leaving a very plain trail and all the petty tricks for throwing the hounds off the scent should be discarded as much as possible...
...addition will be available for distribution as beneficiary funds. This great sum comes from the Price-Greenleaf bequest, and forms the most remarkable benefaction of the kind ever created. When it becomes known that the college has funds to this amount to distribute, there will undoubtedly be a sudden increase in the number of poor students desirous of making Harvard the scene of their labors. As previously stated, the aggregate income of the various college professorship funds is about $80,000. Counting the income from all the scholarships, the loan funds and the beneficiary funds, the college as trustee...
...preacher dwelt was the necessity that as he went forth to take his position of leadership in the world, the liberally educated man should himself be able to command and control himself. This could be done only through a long period of preparation. The temptations and trials which so suddenly sweep down upon men in life are to be met, not by an equally sudden impulse of the will for safety, but only by the discipline and training to perfect obedience of that will. The opportunity for such discipline, the preacher continued, had been enjoyed by those young lives before...
...larger number of them have replied. I wish it were possible for me to acknowledge their letters individually and to tell them how kind I think them. A rather intrusive question has been answered with courtesy. Men have replied with much minuteness, have ransacked old account-books, have explained sudden variations of expenses occuring in successive years, have reported the means by which they have been able to earn money, have offered valuable criticisms of their own outlays and of those modes of living here which in their judgement materially increase or diminish cost. Again and again they have frankly...
Back nets have appeared on Holmes field, and the heart of the tennis player is glad, while the "shack" wanders disconsolately through the yard. His reign has been brought to a sudden end by the awakening of the Tennis Association. We extend our thanks to that worthy institution...