Word: facings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...face aglow in the firelight...
...bust of Gen. Bartlett has been moved from its position on the south side of Memorial Hall to the north side. The change is a great improvement, as, in its former position, the head was turned so as almost to face the wall...
...there is one class of men who seem to stay with us in the most single-hearted fashion, who have made Harvard their permanent camping ground. Their numbers and influence increase year by year; they are a bane and a nuisance, and should be stamped out from the face of the globe. We refer to those wretched beings called "croakers." We are all familiar with and heartily sick of the man who said last fall that we were sure to be beaten by Princeton; who said this spring that we had no chance for the Mott Haven cup; that...
...latest sufferer, however, is the University of Leyden, the students of which have been accused of the grossest immorality by Mr. Cook. Strange to say this accusation is indignantly denied by the rector of the university. But little weight, however, can be attached to such a denial in the face of the contrary assertion by the Lectureship. Besides, it is a notorious fact that college students everywhere are hopelessly immoral, and it is absurd to think that students at the University of Leyden form an exception to this rule...
...they need. We expect them to make a desperate effort to win, remembering that this is their last chance to break the record, so long unbroken, of Yale's freshman victories. Let each man imitate the Yale freshmen and "step to the bat with tightly drawn muscles and determined face," remembering that, although he has not the possession of a fence or his college future in his hands, as was the case with the Yale freshmen, success will be reward enough...