Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unknown at these tables. For six years from four hundred to six hundred students have eaten together in this the largest college dining hall in the world, and no disturbance whatever has ever occurred. Indeed, such a thing would be impossible among young men so well bred. The nearest approach to a demonstration that is ever made is when a thoughtless onlooker in the visitors' gallery neglects to take off his hat. The fare is a little monotonous, but it is rich, well cooked and abundant. Students often remark that in Memorial Hall they get seven-dollar board for four...
...approach of vacation is already foreshadowed by the diminished number of students attending recitations...
...approach of the end of the term has brought with it some social events. The juniors held a very successful german recently and the sophomores are to have one this week. The three upper classes usually hold three during the year...
...lead to believe there is an equal interest at Yale and Princeton and several other colleges. There seem few obstacles to the realization of this scheme, if it can be carried out officially and promptly. By taking immediate action, full arrangements will be made long before the approach of spring, and some definiteness of programme laid out. If only the other college associations come forward and express themselves favorably, as we have good reason to believe they will, we will be promised with some very exciting contests next spring in a sport which is as popular and widespread...
...Yale are enthusiastic over the new freshman coxswain. He weighs about a hundred pounds when out of training, and will train down a good deal below that figure. In the distant future of education in this country looms up the problem of how closely a coxswain can approach' the line which separates entity from nothingness, and still be able to steer a shell between two rows of flags...