Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Therefore, let every man who has ever jumped or who has ever put the shot, enter the coming contest. All cannot win-what matter? All can help toward the grand result-winning the cup. Those who think they have no chance of winning here, will certainly, by the competition, oblige others to do better work. Quite possibly the unlikely ones may turn out the best. You never know what you can do till...
...ends, the faculty would see the advisability of extending the vacation. Whether they do or not, men will continue to cut several days at each end of such a short Christmas vacation as is given us this year; and anyone who views the subject in a fairminded way cannot blame them for doing so. The month of January is a time of hard preparation for the midyears, and two weeks is only too short a time in which a man can get braced for the strain...
...they have one and a lecture by the president upon "Common Sense and Righteousness." Sometimes during the first three months the freshman class is given a reception by President Ewight. About this time the freshmen begin to long to sit on the fence, but we are told that they cannot do this until they have beaten the Harvard freshmen at base-ball. There is one freshman society, called the Gamma Nu. It is a debating club, and meets every Saturday night and generally has about forty members. The new men are initiated by the sophomores, and the society turned over...
...communications in regard to fire-escapes in our yesterday's issue, brings to the fore a well-worn subject, but one which cannot be dropped until remedied. We have repeatedly called the attention of the faculty to the large loss of life which must necessarily ensue in case of a fire in any of the dormitories. There is no possible means of egress except by the stairs, and if escape in that direction should be cut off, one would be compelled to sit down and calculate how many minutes were to elapse before the flames reached the upper story. Perhaps...
...late were unable to get any, as all of those that had been placed in the seats were taken. It seems that there were enough of them to supply the audience, if some persons who came early had not pocketed an extra one for some friend. In future, cannot some better way be devised for distributing them, than by placing them in the seats where a person can take all that he wants...