Word: finding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University in extending to the public the privilege of attending this excellent course of lectures, but I make an emphatic protest against allowing the public to obtain the best seats in the auditorium while many students have to line the walls at the rear of the house or find seats on radiators or steps...
...today's issue Mr. G. B. Pierce '93 challenges "Mr. Thayer or any other man to state a specific case where favoritism (in choosing members of athletic teams) was shown." As I have never made such a charge, I leave it to the 'other man' to find specific case. What I have said is that the impression has prevailed that our athletic teams have not been representative, and I have cited the existence of this impression as an indication of the lack of unanimity in times past. It makes no difference whether there were actual grounds for this idea...
...whole months Grant strained every nerve to find or make a water passage to out-flank Haines's Bluff, or get the transports past the batteries. It was all in vain. Canals were cut; bayous explored; passages forced through countless narrow channels; but to no purpose. The North was out of patience; the people clamored for Grant's removal...
...plan. The latter has been well stated by a graduate interested in the movement in these words: "We aim simply at giving a definite amount of convenience for a definite annual sum; we don't dream of manufacturing sociability; but we believe that if eight hundred or more men find a University club worth ten dollars a year to them, its social influence will work unconsciously-as it should...
What must have been his emotions? He came to bring them the Gospel and they thrust him out. Yet this is only typical of his general treatment. We find nothing but wonder and sorrow that they should so misjudge him. There is no trace of resentment, though...