Word: acted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There shall be an advisory graduate committee on rules and appeals, consisting of two Harvard graduates, two Princeton graduates, two Yale graduates, one Wesleyan graduate, one graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, the several acting captains of the foot-ball teams of each year, and one graduate of any college in the association, to be elected by the said captains as their special advocate and advisor, elected for the term of one year only. The other graduate members hall be elected during commencement week by the members and ex-members of the respective university teams, absentees being allowed to vote...
...should pay what they have pledged themselves for, and if these subscriptions are paid promptly it will be a very material help. All men who have not subscribed, or feel that they can give any more, should send their subscriptions to G. T. Keyes, 18 Holworthy, who will act as treasurer while I am in New London...
...Long before the resistance to the Stamp Act, before the fearless voice of Patrick Henry rang out, before Faneuil Hall had thrown open its doors to an eloquent patriotism, a graduate of Harvard in his Commencement Thesis 'announced the whole doctrine of the Revolution' in words that sounded like a tocsin through the land," said Mr. Hamilton in the undergraduate oration, "There is no break in such a history as ours," insisted the Rev. Phillips Brooks...
Could we, however, become young again by virtue of some witch-potion and enter college once more with all the ignorance, liveliness, and ambition to succeed at whatever cost which we find to our surprise in the undergraduates of the present day, would we act so very differently after all? Would we not be charmed as of old by big, useless muscles in the men of our college class who practice daily at the dumb-bells, and prefer unwieldy giants to smaller men with muscles less startling but far greater will-power to punish themselves in the contest? And when...
...remark which enjoys a perennial popularity in all ages and all lands. The same may be said of the spies that are sent out by two colleges to note the proficiency and faults of the rival crew; it springs from boyishness more than anything else; it is the act of half-men who a few years earlier were reading dime novels, daubing their cheeks with red clay, and lassoing their elders and betters in the semblance of buffalo, or shooting each other with arrows, in the semblance of red men. The precautions taken by each crew, not to allow...