Word: depends
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Finally, avoid unnecessary promenading. Limit yourselves to your beats as we are limited to our seats, and depend more on vigilance of eye than on pedestrian awfulness. Do not continually pass between us and the windows; and please, please, sweet proctors, hang over our shoulders as little as possible. Don't stand, like the Devil, behind our backs, but pose in the foreground that we may be constantly encouraged by your inspiring presence...
...live upon, they will drift along in a life of cynicism and pessimism; if not blessed with wealth they will follow that occupation which offers them the means of subsistence with the least effort on their part. Had they only learned the lesson that man's happiness does not depend upon the height to which he rises, but to the well performance of that duty, however humble, which falls to his lot, they would have been happier men and better citizens...
...that can be indulged in with profit and pleasure. We are glad that the games played this fall have shown that it is something mere than an exhibition of brute strength and inordinate roughness. We are further pleased that the fact has been recognized that Yale does not depend on weight for the make-up of her teams. We are not certain that the papers would not have spoken differently if Yale had won. But that is a matter for conjecture only. Harvard will undoubtedly put a freshman team in the field, and thus the problem which presented itself...
...them, and thereby refuted the charge often made, that college students are not capable of governing themselves in attendance at recitations. Statistics of attendance at Harvard and Yale cannot be compared unless several facts are taken into account, which Professor Ladd has ignored. The marks of Yale students depend to a greater degree on regularity at lectures and recitations, than do the marks of Harvard students. The latter can cut lectures, and actually gain in standing thereby. Oftentimes a student is so pressed in one course with special work that he receives ultimate benefit by neglecting his other course...
Each of the Nations has a club-house, its elaborateness depending on the wealth of the society. In every one of the principal clubs, there is a large hall of sufficient size to hold four or five hundred men. Here the great fetes take place, and banquets are given to the other Nations, the hall being used also as a ball-room on such occasions. At ordinary times the hall is used as a gathering place for the men where they smoke, gossip and listen to music by some of their number. Nothing goes...