Word: finding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...their spring contests with Yale and the baseball team will follow soon. This means that the members of these teams are in bed by 10 o'clock. Of all things, to as man who is training, sleep is by far the most important. Especially near a contest men find it very hard, even under the best conditions, to get the requisite amount of sleep...
...Rideout's books have lately appeared in such quick succession that with each new one we are inclined to say. "This must be a pot-boiler," and then we take it up and to our surprise find again fresh, well-balanced work. "Admiral's Light" is no exception. It is a breath, all to short, of down-east air, tingling with the strong, salt flavor of sea-girt downs and long, pebbly beaches; a tantalizing glimpse of gray ocean and pine-clad islands. The story, as a mere story, amounts to little, but why should it? The book does...
...Ross. The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland, is in four large volumes; Billing's Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland is in three volumes and very rear; and the numerous monographs, and the articles in society publications, about single castles are not easy to know or to find. Not a few of the more earnest readers of the book, would, I think, appreciate a small and unobtrusive bibliography, such as would help them to prosecute the subject further...
...command: Do not be smart. If I were not a doctor of this university with a deep interest in its discipline, and if I did not hold the strongest views on that reprehensible form of amusement known as 'rushing,' I would say that whenever and-whenever you find one of your dear little playmates showing signs of smartness in his work, his talk, or his play, take him tenderly by the hand, by both hands, by the back of the neck if necessary, and lovingly, playfully, but firmly, lead him to a knowledge of higher and more interesting things...
...soon as it comes to a direct issue between you, his little finger will be thicker than your loins. You will go in fear of him; he will not go in fear of you. You will do what he wants; he will not do what you want. You will find that you have no weapon in your armory with which you can attack him; no argument with which you can appeal to him. Whatever you gain, he will gain more...