Word: constant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that "in order to secure the attendance of a fixed number of members so necessary for the improvement at which we aim, a new list be opened for the names of those who feel sufficiently interested in the society to pledge themselves that nothing but necessity shall prevent their constant attendance." It must be remembered that the meetings were held once a week. About this time it was voted to allow freshmen and sophomores to attend the meetings and vote on the questions for debate. From the early part of the year 18836, until its final dissolution, the society...
...were posted that barges would be in readiness to convey into town all who wished to go, and the hour for starting was fixed at 8.45. During the time that the men were waiting for the barges, the disagreeable drizzle that had lasted all the afternoon changed into a constant and heavy downpour, but nothing daunted, nearly 300 men prepared to make the trip to town. On the arrival of the teams, it was found that there were accommodations for less than two-thirds of the crowd assembled, and a lively scramble for places ensued, resulting in a resort...
...mounts up to a very respectable sum. While realizing the fact that the Tennis Association is in need of money to pay for the new courts and to keep them in order, which last is a very considerable item in the case of the clay courts, would not the constant player be given some advantage over the man who plays perhaps half a dozen times a year? In the base-ball games a man can buy his ticket at the gate or, if he thinks it worth his while, he can purchase a season ticket which admits...
...which by the way was held in the dino-concert, or concertodining, hall, having come to an end, the next thing to attract my attention was the Art School and Loan Exhibition of paintings. It was hard to study very carefully any of the pictures on account of the constant crowding of the guests. One of the paintings, however, took my attention for some time. It was entitled, "Waiting for Breakfast." A little girl stood before a stove watching a woman, presumably her mother, fry buckwheat cakes. The title and the plate of cakes (resting on the front edge...
...victories, should be the wish and purpose of every eighty eight man in college, who can possibly afford attendance at the games away from as well as in Cambridge. The freshman nine is not so sure of a victorious campaign that it can do without the hearty and constant support of every man in the class...