Word: filled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will say, though, that Yale has always made a mistake in looking so earnestly for beef to fill her shells. Beef may be advantageous in the rushline of a foot-ball team, and I believe no doubt it is, but I certainly believe boating authorities make a great error in paying so much attention to weight. Naturally a heavy man possessed of proportionally increased strength is a desirable person, but I have often noticed that college crews pay more attention to securing men of weight than to an investigation of the sinew which the candidates may possess...
...writer of your editorial appears to know little of the state of athletics at Harvard and should not have attempted to fill space in the paper by speaking of a subject about which he is so poorly informed. He says: "Now that foot-ball has been, at least for a time, laid by," etc., and then complains because the lacrosse men do not step in and fill up this gap in the circle of sports. The fact is that foot-ball has not been laid aside even for a time, as the gentleman would easily see if he took...
...Bloody Monday Night," - whose features are, to say the least, a disgrace to every one concerned in them. Apart from the fact that most of the punches are obtained by threats, - a thing which would be instantly resented anywhere else, - the circumstances attendant upon them are apt to fill the mind of the average spectator with profound disgust. I am not a member of the H. T. A. L., but I believe I voice the sentiments of a large number of my class in hoping that these scenes may be this year suppressed by the united efforts...
...general order for all the books in a given course,-for example, an order for all French books to be used for French 1. The society has taken measures to learn what will be the books used in the various courses, and will fill such general orders and get the books in time. Orders for books that are to be used at the beginning of the next academic year must be handed in not later than July...
...John T. Morse, Jr., '60, 817; Roger Wolcott, '70, 428; Alexander McKenzie, '59, 344; George O. Shattuck, '51, 335; Samuel Hoar, '67, 333; T. Jefferson Coolidge, '50, 311; Henry L. Higginson, 310; Nathaniel Thayer, '71, 306; Moses Williams, '68, 299. These twelve candidates will be voted for to fill the six vacancies to be filled at the election commencement...