Word: vaines
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...journal of Harvard is again upon a sound financial basis. Our students do not, it is true, step forward with any too much readiness to support the college papers, but when once the true nature of the case is put before them, we do not have to appeal in vain. Indifference holds them back, not a disregard for the success of our journalistic enterprises...
...Cambridge, are to be a thing of the past. For, who is there, that has never undergone the agony of sitting, half crushed-or, rather, owing to the unfortunate abundance of Cambridge females, of standing in the cold, crowded car, and peering frantically through the darkness in a vain attempt to discover the yard, which one never seems to reach...
...Williams "Athenxum" says: 'Now that we have a chess club, why not organize a poker club. We need one. It was the immortal Duke who said: "Many an hour is wasted in vain or frivolous conversation that might be profitably employed in holding four kings...
...semi-annual examinations the team could not be got together. (Query, does Yale close in March, or is the second half-year a three-quarters?) With this, all our hopes for a game are at an end. Our team has kept training to the last, laboring under the vain delusion that Yale would finally give up child's play. We have been deceived...
...Some spend thousands in this way, some hundreds, some fifties, and some only tens; but almost every man, we may be sure, spends all that he can afford. Of course those men who la out small fortunes in the furnishing and decorating of their rooms, do not labor in vain. Rooms of greater luxury and elegance are not to be found anywhere, could not be wished for. Such rooms are well worth seeing. and are pretty sure to display the latest styles in wall papers, draperies and furniture...