Word: acted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...athletics in the college and in the end prove most advantageous to the success of Harvard athletes. Until such a man is appointed, Dr. Sargent is to take care that no man injures himself in any way by exercise. Under his charge, too, men will be hired to act as "rubbers down," and a scale of prices for "rubbing down" will be drawn up. The committee also intend to issue within a few days a set of rules which are to be observed by all the athletic organizations. As no "professional" trainer is to be allowed, it will be seen...
...graduating class at West Point this year numbers thirty-seven. The existing vacancies in the army at present are only thirty-one. Unless there are six more vacancies between now and July 1, that number will be disposed of in accordance with the provisions of the act of June 11, 1878, which provides, that from and after July 1, 1882, only such number of the graduates of the United States Military Academy in any one year shall be entitled to appointment as second lieutenants in the army as are required to fill vacancies of that grade existing on the first...
...this connection, we are sorry to see that a little item that we published some time ago in perfect good faith, concerning Mr. Robinson, the trainer, should have created such excitement at Yale, and brought again into prominent notice that familiar feature of Yale character - complete inability to act in a gentlemanly manner under any circumstances, great or small. As the Crimson remarked in a recent issue, it seemed for a while as if there had crawled into the hearts of Yale men, despite the most strenuous opposition, a desire to assume, at least, the semblance of respectability and even...
Charles J. Gummer, receiving teller of the Bank of California, committed suicide at San Francisco yesterday. The act is attributed to losses in stocks. The bank officers say his accounts are all right...
...regard to the conduct of the Harvard freshmen, two weeks ago, a trifle uncalled for. If any, our own freshmen should be held responsible for what seemed, perhaps, cheeky on the part of our Harvard friends. It may have been poor taste on the part of the latter to act as they did. It certainly was; yet who but our own freshmen urged on the visitors to the perpetration of acts they dared not do themselves?" The fact of the matter is, we learn from good authority, that there were but two of our freshmen on the Yale campus when...