Word: fore
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Experience has taught us that any digression from the beaten track of college custom, no matter how advantageous or how necessary, can only be accomplished by continuous agitation. The editors of the CRIMSON have there-fore decided to bring the question of electric lights for the library directly before the corporation by means of a petition. The method to be employed in getting signatures for the petition will be the same as that used for the petition against compulsory prayers, which was so successful three years ago. A circular containing the petition which is published on the first page, will...
...muscles called into play in foot-ball, and will be of especial value to men who intend to try for the eleven next year. The training the men go through, however, is valuable for its own sake as well as for developing men for the eleven, and furnishes, there-fore, a desirable course of exercise for men who are not doing other team work. The fact that a man knows nothing of football should be no barrier to his joining this class. On the contrary, Mr. Cumnock is eager to have anyone who would like to try for the team...
...gymnasium to watch the contestants. These contests would also tend to improve the general standard of work done at the winter meetings-in fact would be the best preliminary training for those preparing to enter the winter meetings. The athletic association ought this year to take "time by the fore lock" and have everything ready for a prompt start early in the next term...
...students is small, and a Cambridge audience is not reputed to be the most enthusiastic in the world. It would be well, however, if the students who do go would put a little more life and animation in applauding the performers than has been the custom here to fore. It serves to make everything pass on more smoothly, inspiring a confidence and an ease to the soloist which is always appreciated...
...communications in regard to fire-escapes in our yesterday's issue, brings to the fore a well-worn subject, but one which cannot be dropped until remedied. We have repeatedly called the attention of the faculty to the large loss of life which must necessarily ensue in case of a fire in any of the dormitories. There is no possible means of egress except by the stairs, and if escape in that direction should be cut off, one would be compelled to sit down and calculate how many minutes were to elapse before the flames reached the upper story. Perhaps...