Word: establish
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...over the Union course. The expense of providing cups of much value as personal prizes for the members of the winning crews would be too great for the present financial condition of the clubs, since at present all the available funds are needed to buy the boats and to establish the system, as now improved, on a firm basis; and accordingly, the customary pewter trophies will probably be given. The two large cups, however, of which we give some account, confer a marked honor and glory, which renders them prizes more eagerly sought and more proudly held than cups, however...
...flipped from such an elevation as the second or third story. Whatever the trivial reason may be, certain it is, that although the College gates are closed but once in twenty years, yet the vender of melodies rarely ventures through them, conscious that in whatsoever remote corner he may establish himself, the venerable Ubiquity will invite him to depart thence. But in spite of the antipathy displayed for the organ-grinder by the powers that preside over our studies, the student himself will infinitely prefer the performances of that much-abused personage, to those of the man overhead whose rowing...
...taken for granted that their action was influenced by the supposed desire of the students not to have the change made. I say supposed desire, since I venture to assert that this decision does not represent the real desire of a majority of students. I cannot establish this assertion by positive data, but my purpose in writing this is to bring out a vote on this two-sided question. I can readily understand that there are men - not "bummers" or "society men," but good students - whose habits of study lead them to carry it far into the night...
...HOLLAND, writing in Scribner's, suggests that Yale and Harvard establish a course in politics. After three years of study of political economy, international and inter-state law, constitutional law and history, finance, and diplomacy (a rather ambiguous word), the graduate should go before an examining board at Washington to obtain a certificate of fitness for office. Armed with this certificate, he is to go before the people and take his chances for election; and even if he were not elected, the general culture of the community would be elevated by the presence of such a learned person. A knowledge...
...scheme which, could it be carried out, would put new life into athletics at Harvard. Several plans for surmounting the difficulties in the way of the North Pole have lately been laid before Congress. Of these, the most feasible seems to be that of Captain Howgate, who proposes "to establish a colony at eighty degrees north latitude, and from that point push forward toward the Pole by sledging expeditions." The scheme of the World is as follows...