Word: amongst
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...falling. With so many events in prospective, the number of men who will appear daily at the gymnasium will doubtless be larger than at any other time in the year and will augur well for a good showing in the numerous contests in which we are to engage, both amongst ourselves and against common rivals. Our facilities for training and gymnasium work are unexcelled, and it is our duty, as it should be our pleasure, to make the most of them...
...popular institution at any college. It is an evil that has to be endured quite generally, however. This is how the students at the University of Pennsylvania endure it, according to the University Magazine: "A stranger coming into chapel would be much shocked at the apparent want of reverence amongst the students. Some are talking about the coming sports, betting on the different events, others are getting up first hour's recitation; while, from the rear, a freshman regales the audience with the exquisite melody of a tin horn. Why is this irreverence? The solution is easy. By compulsion, chapel...
...taught his college friends especially, that it is possible to live amongst temptation and conquer it. He has emphasized the fact that scholarship and politeness suit well together, and that culture and piety have no antagonisms. He has refuted the too commonly accepted college opinion that religion and stupidity are boon helpmeets, by coupling the most brilliant scholarship with a sincere piety. Is not this a most worthy record? Has not his life done something for the world...
...does not have to hunt long amongst undergraduate poetry to find passages that are far more original than beautiful; one writer, for instance, calls swallows "volatile air-swimmers," - a painfully original metaphor. Another describes a mountain...
...doubt of the result of the race with Yale. As to the class crews, they are all well under way, and, judging from present appearances, the race this spring will be most exciting. The Freshmen, in particular, are doing well, and if they maintain a unanimity of feeling amongst themselves and pay careful attention to their duty, there is no possible reason why they should not win in their race with Columbia. Of course it is impossible, as yet, to form any opinion as to the result of the class race; but at all events it promises to rival that...