Word: extend
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...enthusiasm at the games, a word might be said about a just distribution of applause. On this point we know we have the concurrence of some of the men most interested in base ball. From a standpoint of justice as well as of courtesy, the college ought to extend as warm a welcome as possible to the visiting teams and applaud their good plays. This is the only gentlemanly way in which to enter into sport, and it is a custom which should prevail as if by instinct in every branch of Harvard athletics. In the past, there has been...
...extend best wishes for success to the Harvard disputants who leave Cambridge today for the joint debate with Yale. Although it is rather premature to look upon these debates as already taking the form of intercollegiate contests, nevertheless the Harvard men who speak at New Haven tomorrow do stand in the eyes of the spectators as representatives of Harvard, and success or failure on their part reflects credit or discredit on the college. A royal reception at New Haven is a waiting the disputants, and they should leave Cambridge this morning backed by the good wishes of the whole college...
...yesterday. This table is in the new athletic club house, just completed, which is the gift of Professor Osborn. The entrance opens into a large hall to be used as a trophy room, wainscotted to a height of 6 1-2 feet with oak panels. The dining rooms, which extend the width of the building, open from the trophy rooms by arch doorways. The one on the right, intended for the use of the 'varsity, contains a tablet bearing the inscription: "1891," Presented to Princeton University by Henry F. Osborn, class of '77." The other dining room contains no fireplace...
Advocates of a liberal, advanced education will extend a hearty welcome to the reforms adopted by Amherst. These steps are all in the direction of a diminution of prescribed classics and of greater freedom in the choice of electives. The change from the old school to the new is shown in the way that modern languages receive some of the attention which before was bestowed upon Greek and Latin. The importance of English composition, too, is happily being emphasized. The reforms are moreover extended beyond the academic course and made to apply also to the scientific course. While scientific studies...
Each examination begins at 9.30 a. m. and by the Regulations must not extend beyond three hours...