Word: take place
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...tucked him into bed? If his manly aspirations led him to drink bitter beer and the choking hot brandy-and-water, was it not as good for him as a temperance lecture to be doused in cold water and left to dry? Did not, in short, the Sophomore take the place of a mother to him and frequently perform the functions of the previous maternal supervision? But, it may be said, however this was, the Sophomores were certainly not the men to exercise this restraint. The belief in the conceit of Sophomores is a pretty general...
...single-scull race, which did not take place on the day of the Fall races, was to come off Wednesday afternoon, but was again postponed, on account of the roughness of the water...
...RECEPTION game will probably be played with the Bostons by the Harvard Nine on the return of the former from their tour next week. The game will take place on the Boston Grounds, and we hear that Mr. Bush of '71 will play once more under his old colors...
...Harvard Freshman Nine went to Spring-field on Saturday, July 12, and, on their arrival proceeded at once to their quarters, - the Lefebvre House. Having ascertained that Brown was to be their only opponent, it was agreed to play a series of games, to take the place, as well as possible, of the proposed tournament. The first game was to be played on Tuesday, the 15th; the second on Thursday, the 17th; and the third, if necessary, on Friday, the 18th of July...
...there is a want which ought before long to be supplied everywhere, and especially here. I refer to the arrangement of a class of preliminary studies especially adapted to the preparation of the young men to take an efficient part in the treatment of difficult questions connected with the management of public affairs." For granted, what is so often urged, that to obtain place one must generally blunt all nice sensibility, indeed, must lose much of his spirit of independence, by sacrificing honest convictions to the demands of party; granted that the populace often prefer a superficial pretender (without capacity...