Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Sharp, Senior, respectfully petitions to be excused for his absence from recitations from Monday to Saturday inclusive, as he was suffering from an aggravated attack of cerebro-spinal meningitis, combined with severe swollen tonsilitis and a 'cataracticus cum auge.'" Granted. Of course it was. I cannot see how any one could resist the appeal of such an accumulation of diseases...
...Harvard batted hard, but the head wind, and fine fielding of Wigton, Dodge, and Hunt lost several base-hits. Furman pitched very effectively; his delivery is very swift and hard to hit; towards the close of the game he was unable to do himself justice, owing to the swollen condition of Funkhouser's hands. If the latter can learn to hold the pitching with gloves, Harvard will have to look out for her laurels on June 7th and 8th, The applause was very impartially given to both sides, and a single slight attempt to applaud one of Harvard's errors...
...heated room, the dull Livy, -all are conducive to slumber; the very instructor seems admirably chosen to that end: but my naps are broken by my active neighbor, who says, "The French Left Centre don't care for the status quo, and the Pope's legs are horribly swollen." Now I don't know what a status quo is, and I don't believe he does. Why will he talk so? I was secretly glad yesterday when the instructor opened the window to keep the men awake, for I knew my neighbor did n't wear any overcoat...