Word: following
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...long been a cherished scheme of the athletic authorities of the college to follow the lead of Harvard in reducing the scope of her athletics to inter-collegiate contests on college grounds. Even the Cambridge University, more favorably situated geographically, and less stinted in financial resources, has found it difficult to adhere strictly to her avowed purpose, and it is hardly to be expected that Dartmouth in her far corner of the earth should be more fortunate. Yet progress is being made toward this ultimate end. Already our football interests are substantially upon this basis, and the track team fails...
Seniors are urged to assist the committee in a judicious distribution of the tickets, to follow the requirements carefully, and to do everything in their power to keep all but the friends of the students away from the exercises...
...than indulgence. He shows his great hero, the Iron Duke of Wellington who represents legal and just power, making head against lawlessness in the person of Napoleon. For this reason perhaps Tennyson has given us less of music and art, because it is the custom of the artist to follow his own bent and let the critic supply the laws...
...rarely render them in reading, so that comparatively few persons are really aware of the difference between the two forms of poetry. But in most of the accompanied parts of the play the music is set to the Latin measure and this makes it necessary for the speaker to follow that measure as it existed in Latin. And thus we may get approximately, at any rate, the effect of ancient classic verse. Thus the play becomes a study in ancient poetry as well. In the modern delivery of poetry the verse as a strain or melodic phrase is almost lost...
least, of the inflections of ordinary speech, we cannot help feeling as we follow the dialogue that the words do actually convey ideas. There may be other ways of accomplishing the same appreciation of the language, but in our methods of education they are not easily manageable, so that it is almost through dialogue alone that we can produce this impression...