Word: bestirred
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...matter of the class fund, too, Ninety-five is reported as very remiss. Possibly the class do not realize how near to its close the college year is getting, but it is time for them to bestir themselves. To have been more backward in subscribing them any class in the past twenty years, is no enviable reputation...
...Titus are the candidates, with the odds in favor of Williams; but should Trenchard's arm, which was injured two years ago, grow stronger, it will be a nip and tuck race. Both men are in poor form and show a woful lack of snap; they need to bestir themselves in order to compare favorably with the other college catchers. In the pitching department there is a wealth of material. Bradley, providing his arm holds out, will do most of the pitching in the championship games. Altman will be called in should Bradley's arm fail him. Next...
From the reports which have come from New Haven during the week past, it is very evident that Harvard will have to bestir herself in order to maintain the supremacy in debating next year. Yale men may or may not care much about debating. Probably the feeling there does not differ greatly from what it is here. But this we know full well, - that Yale men do care a great deal about being beaten, and that now that the graduates are fairly awake something will be done to improve Yale's chances of victory...
...would remind those members of Ninety-three who have not given their orders for caps and gowns of the notice of the Class Day Committee. According to this, Friday will be the last chance to be measured and it is important that the delinquent ones should bestir themselves. It is almost inconceivable that any senior is deliberately planning to do without these necessary accompaniments of graduation. The mere thought of the figure a few solitary men in ordinary clothes would cut in the presence of their classically attired friends on, Class Day and Commencement is enough to keep...
...seems to be necessary every year for the annual wait to be raised in your columns before the H. A. A. management will bestir itself to start the hare and hound runs. Everyone acknowledges the benefits of these runs for all branches of athletics, and they are always well attended. This October weather is the very best time in the year for them, and I hope that they may be soon begun, before all the good weather is gone...