Word: finding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...room which is not engaged before one o'clock this afternoon will be considered vacant and will be put immediately upon the list of rooms to be drawn for. This regulation of the College is not one that can be disregarded if a student does not wish to find himself out of the Yard altogether. Last year several men forgot it and applied for their room a day or two late, and found that they had lost it and must draw again with the others. Some were fortunate enough to draw new rooms in the Yard, but many were...
...doubtful if Harvard has a single graduate who is now filling the positlon of instructor in athletics at a university. Several institutions have applied to the Harvard authorities for students who are competeat to take charge of departments of athletics, but the authorities have been at a loss to find men who are willing and qualified to fill such a position...
...question of money confronts them. Mirabelle remembers that she has some jewels locked up with her crown in the Bishop's safe. She has told Dan de Lion, if he would prove his love, to bring her this crown. Why should he not get the jewels too? Robbie can find no reasonable grounds for opposing the plan; and accordingly de Lion, having artfully secured the keys from the pretended Bishop, opens the safe and to his terror lets out the real Bishop...
...commented Mr. Crothers, he was not thinking so much of the place, as of the condition of the sould. He urged simplicity of thought and singleness of desire. Choose your part, he says; let the heart be fixed once and forever upon its true aim. Thus fixed, men will find in their aims their sufficient treasure and come to the real liberty of the children...
...Lacrosse, but who think that because they know nothing of it and have never even seen a game, they are not likely to be wanted on the lacrosse squad. On the contrary, any man with a good body and any athletic inclinations would be very welcome. He could scarcely find any form of exercise which would more perfectly or evenly develop his physique...