Word: entertain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...terms set forth by the faculty. Those conditions were, in the judgment of the faculty, so fair and reasonable that they have not thought it wise or possible to make any change. Various friends of the college have suggested other conditions, but the faculty have thought it inexpedient to entertain them. Every effort which a class could possibly make to secure changes or concessions in the original terms has been made, but without effect. Other institutions have loyally supported Hamilton in this test case of college government, and the students have finally come to the conclusion that the only course...
...again a lack of system alone kept them from scoring and though at times they played hard the steady playing of their opponents beat them back. Before the game the Andover men considered defeat an almost foregone conclusion and not until the close of the three-quarters did many entertain expectations of victory. Andover made in all five touchdowns from which one goal was kicked. Three of the touchdowns were made by Knowlton, the centre rush, whose effective playing did every thing for his side. Toward the end of the last three-quarters Stearns got a very pretty goal from...
...position. The possession or acquisition of money is, therefore, not a sign of social success. A man's wife and children are not troubled by his not possessing it. Some of the most highly placed and respected men in the community live no better than the German professor does, entertain no better and have as little money as he has. Consequently the world at large in Germany does not associate failure or small value with a small salary. It has constantly before its eyes great and successful men who were also poor. It does not place the money-making power...
...papers are at present upon amicable, or at least not on hostile terms, yet naturally entertain no great liking for one another. The Argonaut has succeeded in working up a considerable subscription list and is financially secure for its first year, which is better than its projectors hoped. The Chronicle has for some time been making money; how it will come out this year I do not know...
Class day is a day intended for seniors and seniors alone to entertain their friends, and it is presumptions as well as extremely discourteous for a man to decline to give up his room on the ground that he expects to entertain himself upon that day. A man has no right to decline a request for his room upon any such plea. When he graduates he will have ample opportunity to entertain his friends, and if he expects others to give up their rooms to him then it is certainly just that he should do the same now that...