Word: exists
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...steward has given up his place, and again the college is confronted with the old query, whether or not to give it a strong support for the ensuing year. When Mr. Balch gave up his position there was a strong feeling against his management. Many abuses were allowed to exist which could easily have been checked. Some of the food was unpalatable and unfit to eat, and was served in that condition. Consequently complaints were many and grew stronger and more aggressive as the year drew to its end. And it would not be strange if much of this feeling...
...wish very much that this state of things existed here or in England. But it does not exist. Moreover, it is passing away more or less rapidly in all countries in which it does exist. All civilized societies in our day tend to the commercial type, and more and more adopt the commercial standards and tests. Consequently we see no chance of introducing it here, and, though it is everybody's duty not to drift idly with the current, it is sheer waste of strength to try and row dead against it. The people, or perhaps we should rather...
...order that as the college is foremost in tennis now, it may remain so in the future. Under the present state of affairs any one who wishes is given a chance to play, and there seems to be no reason to prevent skill from being developed, wherever it may exist...
...somewhat surprised to find that the "Cyclist and Wheel Annual" is entered here under the head of "Law and Sociology." What occult relation there may exist between the two subjects it is beyond our powers to divine...
Vassar is divided into many cliques. This is an implorable, but unavoidable fact. It is not possible, it seems to me, for any general sociability to exist, for "birds of a feather must flock together," and you cannot make them do otherwise...