Word: accustomed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...support that club, a careful account of every expenditure, and that such accounts should from time to time be made public. If the expenditures are found to be necessary (as it is presumed they will be found), students will subscribe much more readily; and, besides, this plan will accustom us to those business ways which we must get into the minute we step beyond college walls, and which it is best to begin here...
...been urged that the crews should be provided with shells, in order to accustom themselves to rowing in a racing-boat; but before this want is satisfied, some attention should be given to the needs of those who have paid as much as any one for the support of the clubs, but are not favored by nature with biceps and thighs of power enough to win them a place on the crews...
...Waverly Oaks considers that he is quite justified in boasting of his prowess to his friends. Not that we mean to say that ten or twelve miles is not a good walk, but it should be taken oftener, and men who do not take other exercise should accustom themselves to walking for an hour or two every day at the rate of four or five miles an hour. There is nothing so invigorating as a good, brisk walk with the shoulders thrown back and the chest expanded, and, besides, the country about Cambridge is well worth exploring on Saturdays...
...determining their relative merits. The excellence of our Freshman crew is very gratifying, after the failures in that direction of all the classes now in College; it is a wise plan to give it all possible practice in hard rowing by the side of other crews, both to accustom the crew to the kind of work required in a race and to test the value of their stroke. As we said last week, we should be very sorry to see a man taken out of the boat, and we regret even to hear of the probability of a man being...
...mode of expressing approval, is regarded as contrary to the 'customs' of the Society. These matters, though apparently trifling in themselves, are really part of the 'coloring' which gives the Union its distinctive characteristics. They serve a double purpose, - they give a high tone to the debates, and accustom the members to habits which may afterwards be of much service to them, should they become members of the House of Commons. The voting is very uncertain except in questions of pure politics. Speeches have very great effect; a good opening speech, and a good reply will often carry the House...