Word: call
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...good influences of home the vice and debauchery which he has been told exist here, or because he wishes you to think that he has tasted more deeply of the pleasures of life elsewhere than it is possible to do in Cambridge. Then, again, your man of the world calls it a "hole," - meaning, I fancy, that we live in a provincial, slow, one-horse sort of a place. If you tell this gentleman that you consider hole to be rather strong he politely informs you that had you known anything better (I suppose he means worse...
...PROPOSITION is now being considered by the Directors of the Memorial Hall Association, of such importance to all students of the University that I desire to call attention to it through the columns of the Crimson. It has been proposed, in addition to our usual limited choice, to place upon the tables lists of extra dishes that may be ordered by such students as are dissatisfied with the regular fare, and are willing, by paying a little more, to arrange the menu to better suit their respective tastes. These extra dishes are to be prepared by the steward, and furnished...
...they are now working faithfully and doing all in their power to insure success. That their efforts will be rendered useless by a tardiness of support, through the negligence of their friends, is a danger against which the graduates, on their side, must jealously guard; and we therefore earnestly call upon them to come forward, now, in good season, and do the part which we have good reason to expect of them, toward bringing the victorious colors whither they have so often come...
...becomes stroke of the crew, other men, no matter what their taste may be, will respect and admire him, as men on our crews have in times past been respected and admired. No one will call him a fool for his pains, and hint they could have done as well by making fools of themselves in the same way. If he rides, he will have admiration of another kind perhaps, but he will be acknowledged, all the same, to have done something...
...measure strength with English clubs; but English clubs certainly do not appreciate the flattery. If the system goes on, there is no saying where. it will stop. German and even Japanese students will next want to try their hands, and the university boating clubs will not be able to call their vacation their own. If Oxford should choose to accept such challenges, the public will be glad of the sport and of the self-sacrifice which it entails; but if Cambridge decline to be bothered by the intrusion, we cannot blame them...