Word: bound
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will probably be out of the question to get a race with Yale or Harvard next summer. We must first show our quality with some crews that they feel that they can down, and if we beat them-and we must-then will Yale and Harvard be bound to answer a challenge from us. We shall undoubtedly challenge the University of Pennsylvania first. They are just beginning to row eights, sent out their first last year, and will be a worthy opponent. Then comes the time for Cornell's first appearance at New London. Columbia would undoubtedly be glad...
...that mankind is divided into two classes-the integers, those who look upon life in a manly earnest way, following out their allotted path with simple faith in their own power to do their duty; and the fractions, those who pursue one idea with such enthusiasm that they become bound up in it, forgetting that there are other aims and aspirations and duties in life beyond that one idea. The writer calls those who burst their bonds and try to fill a sphere for which they are not fitted, improper fractions, because of their tendency to raise the numerator...
...Harvard ill luck. There can no longer be any doubt of the fact that Yale is essentially a more athletic college than Harvard. The reason for this is patent. The social conditions at Yale attract athletes; the social conditions at Harvard repel them. Yale's very being is bound up in athletics. She sacrifices everything for athletic victory...
Nearly three hundred men boarded the train at the Old Colony Depot on Wednesday evening last, bound for New York by the steamer "Pilgrim" of the Fall River Line. Four or five cars were specially reserved for the men through the foresight and care of Mr. Palmer, and they were speedily packed with as jolly a crew as ever went forth from these classic halls to discomfort Yale and back their alma mater. As the train moved out of the depot, cheer after cheer went up from every voice, the manly basses of the upper-classmen being occasionally interspersed with...
...other side in order to cause them to drop flies and make wild throws, and I saw the cheering led in one quarter by a substitute of the 'Varsity nine, conspicuous by his uniform cap, there seemed to be no further room for excuses and I was bound to confess that the old chivalrous tone prevading Harvard audiences on the ball field had departed. I am not alone in this opinion for the condemnation of the afternoon's proceedings by all the graduates with whom I conversed after the game was as hearty...