Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...string of champagne corks adorns the chandelier, and a rifle occupies a conspicuous place, we may quickly conclude that the occupant would buy no books at all if not obliged to, and is a bummer; what particular line he pursues can be easily discovered by all his furniture except his book-case; and as we are more particularly concerned with this, we leave his species for the present, and shall describe the only other man who can be the possessor of text-books and nothing else. This is a grind of the narrow-minded sort, who studies all the time...
...meeting of the executive committee of the Boat Club, on Monday, it was decided that hereafter no one will be allowed to join the clubs for less than one year, except Seniors, who may join for the spring by paying $6.66. The fee for the whole year is $10.00, in advance. Some further steps were taken to complete the purchase of the boats from Mr. Blakey. The rule that members of the clubs must first become members of the H. U. B. C. is to be enforced...
...could be seen; and, moreover, on one side of the river for the entire distance there is a carriage-road, and on the other a railroad on which a train of platform cars would be run, during the race, abreast of the boats and in full view of them, except for a few hundred feet where the road passes through a short cut. There is, also, ample opportunity for large steamers to follow the race, and a seaport like New London will be able to supply enough of these vessels. The hotels will easily accommodate two thousand guests...
...March 1st, twenty days earlier than last year, the crew were out on the river, and since then have been able, except on Wednesday last, to get daily practice. The eight, as first made up, was as follows: Harriman 1, W. Le Moyne 2, Legate 3, Smith 4, Brigham 5, Schwartz 6, Jacobs 7, and Bancroft 8. Various changes have since been made in the forward part of the boat. From the men named, and from F. Le Moyne, Crocker, and Littauer, the crew will be selected. The other candidates have been distributed among the Freshman and Club crews...
...what does this advantage arise from? Either from his superior learning or his narrow means. It must be the latter. It cannot be his superior learning, for since competition is not free, how do we know that the learning is superior? Any method of assigning scholarships except according to scholarly merit cannot fail of being demoralizing in proportion as the assignment is influenced by a regard for the circumstances of the applicant. It may be said that a change in the present system would have no different result, that the same men would take the scholarships as take them...