Word: third
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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According to most poets, "eventide" is "betokened" by a stillness. The third stanza informs us that "The robins all are still." My own experience has been that at the time of twilight the robins are the only creatures that are not still. A short piece entitled "In May Days" has a somewhat peculiar construction. The writer begins by enumerating some of the features of spring, and in the first three stanzas rolls up a ponderous compound subject, containing, among other things, a relative clause attached to a relative clause, but as yet brings in no predicate; in the fourth stanza...
...wish to accompany the Nine on this trip they can probably obtain reduced rates by sending their names to the manager, 48 Brattle St. The Nine will play at Worcester in the following positions: Folsom, pitcher; Nichols, catcher; Cutts, first base; Coolidge, second base; Baker, short stop; Snow, third base; Olmsted, left field; Perin, centre field; Edwards, right field; Edmands and Hall, substitutes. The Nine will also play the Bostons on the Boston grounds on the 9th, 13th, and 16th of April...
...must seem to all unfortunate that the gentlemen having the undertaking in charge have not been able, because of financial necessity, to sell the tickets at such a price as would enable all members of the University to see the play. For it is a fact that a good third 1 of the students (and this is a low estimate) are unable to afford the two or three dollars required for admittance...
...examination in the third hour of Natural History 8 will be held on the first Monday after the recess...
...R.THE third eight of the Pi Eta from '82 are Messrs. Anderson, Bacon, Bancroft, Comey, Gordon, Jones, Luce, and Preston...