Word: cramped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...promise of a larger number of students for the 'Annex' than it has ever before had, and yet it is impossible to receive more pupils in our present narrow quarters. In short, the vigorous growth of our undertaking places us in the most serious embarrassment. We have either to cramp its farther development or make provision for its increase...
...have called the contrivance known as English grammar absurd, and the study of it a useless study; and I verily and soberly believe both these assertions to be true. I believe that the effect of the study of English grammar, so called, is to cramp the free action of the mind; to bewilder and confuse where it does not enfeeble and formalize; to pervert the perception of the true excellence of English speech; and, in brief, to substitute the sham of a dead form for the reality of a living spirit. Where words have no varying forms indicative of their...
...half hours were played in all, and the game was characterized by, despite its fierceness, a friendly feeling which ought to commend this noble, but much abused game, to the college authorities. When one man had a cramp, both sides formed tug-of-war teams, by holding each other's waists, and would have pulled the poor fellow apart in their endeavors to cure him, had not the injured member recovered just in time to prevent such a catastrophe. fickle fortune again favored the blues toward the end of the game, so that at the finish the score stood...
...will Harvard have a need for further buildings by any means so pressing as for an increase in the number of and better endowments for her teaching force? When the college has an annual deficit of $20,000 or $30,000, and in consequence thereof is compelled to seriously cramp and injure her active instruction, should not efforts be made to remove these disabilities before they are made for securing accommodations chiefly for future use or for minor aims? The Nation, a paper which is one of the most intelligent friends of the university, has often commented upon...
With no desire to limit or cramp the poet's inspiration, a few suggestions may not be out of place, as the music will be composed for the words, and not selected. Let the character of the words be cheerful and spirited as far as possible, and not melancholy or retrospective. Do not make the poem or the stanzas too long. Several metres and examples are appended from which it is desired that the metre of the poem be chosen. Remember that the song is to be sung by nearly two hundred voices; simplicity of expression and metre are therefore...