Word: firmly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sever 11 at half past seven. The prospects for a good debate this year are very good; the Union has made arrangements to hold it here on a larger scale than last year and every effort will be made to make it a success. What is now wanted is firm backing from the college, an interest among the students that will bring out tonight from the college a large number of speakers. If the college takes the interest in these debates that they deserve and should have given them they may become in future years an important and interesting feature...
...testimonial from us this eleven does. Moreover a dinner of this kind does much to quicken our active interest in football; it gives an opportunity to all to consider and discuss our policy, and its best application in foot ball and its binds us all strongly together in the firm determination to stand even more staunchly by our eleven and encourage it to victory. Consequently we feel that at this present, when we recognize most deeply the esteem in which +++ hold Captain Trafford and his team that we should give them a dinner where we can attest our appreciation...
...however, there was too little snap, and a great ignorance of some of the points which should have been learned at the beginning of the year. The centre men break through fairly well but do not know what to do. In defence they not only fail to have a firm position, but do not even watch their opponents. With such men as Hickok and McCrea against them, the centre men have a tremendous amount to accomplish, to make a respectable showing...
...name. The few class meetings which are held during the college course help in a slight way to promote this feeling of attachment to the class and a realization of what a class really means and stands for; but there is hardly anything which knits a class together more firmly than the class dinners. The junior dinner is always a good beginning and the senior dinner, coming at a time just before the class breaks up and goes out into various parts of the world, is the final knot which binds the friendships firm for the future...
...Hollis.John S. Cranston, Samuel K. Sanford, and James B. Niver have recently been appointed General Managers of the Equitable Life Assurance Society with head-quarters at the Equitable Building, Boston. Enterprising and ambitious young men will do well to consult the above firm before securing positions elsewhere...