Word: aways
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is a feeling at Oxford that cricket and foot-ball tend to weaken the crew by drawing away men who would other wise try for a place in the shell. The average weight of the Cambridge trial eights is but 158 lbs., but the material is superior to that which formed last year's victorious eight. Cambridge also has three old men in training, and there is a feeling among the wearers of the light blue that Cambridge will, as last year, row a winning race...
...whom one does not meet in the lecture room. Next Tuesday Professor Norton is the speaker, and his subject, which treats of the different phases of intellectual life in America, is of interest to all here. This chance of hearing so eminent a person should not be thoughtlessly thrown away...
...Gray. He had kept his simplicity because he had not thought of himself, but had been filled with the sense of unattained duty, of the great aims of life. The whole life was a lesson for all men. To have the simplicity of true greatness they must put away the narrowing sense of self-importance and give themselves up to the commanding influence of that great end towards which our minds are working. We must live as this man lived, in the power of good deeds...
...dared to cheat. Each man felt that the shame would be tenfold greater than if he should be caught cheating under the eye of a proctor. The element of daring, of dull satisfaction at the cunning evasion of the sharp glance of a policeman was entirely taken away. There was instead a feeling of pride that the instructor had shown his appreciation of the manhood of the students in his courses...
...first base, which he is able to cover easily. He has played more or less in the field, but is not a very sure man outside of the diamond. McClintock, '90, played right field in two of the championship games last year, when both Kellogg and Brigham were away. He covers his ground well, but is not very quick in fielding the ball. His batting is not above the average...