Word: commander
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Athletic Committee, however, " all trained athletes as well as cultured men," know full well that the great obstacle to exercise is not the " scientific accuracy which debars the general student from an enjoyable sport," but the limited area of land devoted to out-door sports. With additional land at command, class nines and elevens would have been formed long ago from policy, just as the class crews were. As a matter of fact, since the first restrictions were laid on base-ball, no larger number have played base-ball than before. The changes introduced by the committee cannot, therefore, make...
...dollar and a quarter. One of the recent notices set the price at forty-five cents, which is getting it down pretty low. Then there have been those who have received two, three, and even four or five, dollars an hour, which is pretty good pay. But to command such prices, we may be sure that the tutors have established reputations for getting their men through. The five dollar tutor must have a master mind, as well as a natural talent for teaching...
Appeals for money to found new schools and colleges, or to support those already established, are common occurrences in America. As a usual thing, such requests excite but little comment, but the following, which we take from a recent number of Harpers' certainly ought to command attention by its exceedingly practical piety. It is headed "A Prayer for Royer's Academy." printed on a slip of paper, and sent about as a circular. It opens with an invocation to the Almighty and the All-wise, and thanks Him that He has put it into the hearts of men to "build...
...boyish studies had made me familiar with King Arthur and his Round Table, and in general with all the knights and giants of medieval romance; and I therefore had plenty of heroic types at command by which to prefigure this college Titan. But a week or more of my freshman existence passed by without my seeing him, though by no means without my asking and hearing about him. Then one sunny morning there was a knock at my door, and in walked a broad shouldered, brown-bearded personage, with a burly gait, a deep, bluff voice, and a strong, good...
...French at Quebec and Ticonderoga, in the French and Indian wars. At the further end of the common, just in front of the Shepard Memorial (Cong.) church, is the old Washington elm, with the stone slab before it, on which we read, "Under this tree Washington first took command of the American army, July 3d, 1775." We continue our way up Garden street to Concord avenue. On our right are, or were, the old arsenals, of which some have been torn down during the past summer. I think that it was in the late war, when a raid...