Word: drift
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Such changes would increase the desirability of the entry as a dormitory, and would keep people on the Yard who now drift to Mt. Auburn street. The University would be more than repaid for the outlay required by the increased value of the room rents. The renovation of the Yard dormitories must come sooner or later. The north entry of Thayer is a good place to begin. MT. AUBURN STREET RESIDENT...
...general audience. The objectionable features are a lack of spontaneity, the perfunctory punctuation of proceedings on the field by mechanical manifestations of approval or disapproval, and the risk that occasionally such well-meaning hordes of heelers, with their hectic cheers exceeding all bounds of legitimate applause, may drift into intentional preparations to secure victory by vociferation,--a poor way to lose the contest, to be sure, but a worse way to win it. This is the real mischief of the business,--not in the act itself, but in the exaggeration and ill-directed utilization. Such occurrences as the explosive demonstrations...
...yesterday afternoon the Newell won the 1903, 1902 and 1901 races and the Weld won the Law School race. The weather conditions were not very favorable and the times of all the races were slow. In the race of the Junior crews the Newell coxswain allowed his boat to drift into the Weld course, causing a foul. As this foul, however, did not affect the result, the referee gave the race to the Newell crew. This decision may be protested by the Weld crew and if the protest is sustained, both crews will enter the class races on Thurday...
...from a moral point of view into four classes: The first, those who are unaffected by temptation and whose lives are under the control of a superior being; the second, those who recognize evil, but fight with all that is in them to overcome it; the third those who drift about and do not contend with evil, either through thoughtlessness or because they have been defeated; and the last class, those who, overcome by temptation, are going to places in their moral and perhaps their physical nature. The question to be solved then is, how can those in the last...