Word: doesn
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mind that but four weeks now remain before the final examinations, and that there are more outside distractions in these weeks than at any other time of the year. The temptation to cut lectures and generally abandon one's study for out door amusements is strong. If a man doesn't combat this influence the four weeks will seem like four days, and he will find himself wholly unprepared. He will be inclined to put the blame on the late vacation, but the fault will generally...
...defeated, don't explain, don't excuse it, but bear it like men, grimly and silently, and go into the struggle next time with more unflagging perseverance and a deeper determination. Yet victory is better than the most honorable defeat. Do not adopt the theory that it really doesn't matter whether we win or lose, for it does matter and it rests with all to neglect no detail, to support the captain heart and soul so that the team may line up hereafter with the spirit of "win we must and will...
Burrage at guard plays fairly well. He doesn't put nearly enough force in his tackling, but has some idea of following the ball. He knows the game pretty well...
...remark accidentally overheard on the street a few days ago seems to us so interesting in the state of feeling that it revealed that we cannot but dwell on it for a moment. Two upper classmen were talking glumly of the outlook for their class eleven. "Why doesn't Blank come out?" said one. "He would brace that team wonderfully...
College men would be inclined to answer at once that it is impracticable, that to follow such a rule would have wrecked their college course. And yet, now that the four years are over, doesn't every man realize that there was something in college far better than the competition; isn't he dissatisfied at last with nothing but a game of grab...