Word: abouting
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Yale, also, has had such contests. The programme at one of these which took place about a year ago, consisted of long walking and running races, short dashes of two hundred yards or so, running and standing, high and long jumps, hurdle racing, and throwing the base ball.
THE Denison Collegian has an article on the "Morality of College Catalogues," which exactly expresses our views upon the subject; some of its remarks are such that, if they proceeded from one of the older Eastern colleges, the author would be directly accused of a snobbish desire to trample on...
We meet these politic individuals in almost every walk of life, and are often astonished at their success; we see them amongst the mercantile classes, find them in congressional assemblies, note them amongst the aspirants after the chief places in societies and associations, Christian, scientific, or literary, and discover them...
Sturdy honesty of purpose, it seems to us, is so much better than any kind of policy, that we wonder any are found so impolitic as to surrender it on any terms. A man with a plain, honest character, simple and unostentatious, is too anomalous an individual in college to...
But one thing was needed to make him perfect, he must be proved to be the perpetrator of crimes, - and that was done; he had been the leader of a band of robbers, everybody asked him to dinner; he had been accused of murder, his reputation was established. His poetry...