Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...majority of our students would probably pronounce the endeavor to make our athletics cheaper and less "professional," a laudable one, provided all other colleges would concur with us. Other colleges, however, refused point blank to do so last year, and there are, at present, no indications of a change in their sentiments...
maker, if one were only possessed of an invisible cloak. The coalscuttle which has done duty for three generations of undergraduates is palmed off as "the very last purchis which Mr. Blank made, and he was a real gentleman he was, and behaved like one." Mr. Blank- the real gentleman- the immediate predecessor in one's room, is generally discovered afterwards not to have displayed toward the bed-maker the extraordinary quality with which she persists in crediting him; indeed he very often turns out to have had a very low opinion of that amiable lady's character as developed...
...willing to subscribe his last penny for the sake of beating Harvard at New London, and if we wish to see them disappointed we must be more generous in supporting our crew. Out of 1500 men, composing Harvard University, only 438 subscribed to the crew's support Blank postal cards were sent to mostly every undergraduate last spring, soliciting subscriptions but two-thirds of these were never returned. One man returned three, without his name upon them, as a joke. If every man would come forward and subscribe, if not $5, at least $2, $1 or even 50 cents...
...Blank postal cards are being sent around college to all those men who have not subscribed to the university crew. It is earnestly requested that these postal be filled out as soon as possible, and mailed. The crew is in need of money, and if the college at large wish to see their eight successful at New London this year, they must subscribe what they can to its support...
...When I returned to Yale the boating prospects were exceedingly gloomy. There was no crew and no promising material with which to form one. Moreover, there were no practice boats, the boat-house was almost abandoned, and there was an utter absence of enthusiasm. In the face of this blank outlook I got a number of men together and gradually injected the new principles into their minds. Their progress was so slow that it was not until three or four days before the race that the men struck the keynote as a crew. Compared with the other ten crews which...