Word: forgetful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hissing which disgraced the first winter meeting last Saturday, would be most ungentlemanly. The fact that ladies are to be present should do more towards emphasizing this than anything we can say; but at the same time, under a high pressure of excitement, even gentleman are apt to forget themselves sometimes. The spectators should remember also to abstain from undue applause and encouragement for the contestants until the close of the events. If these little things are remembered, we prophesy an interesting and successful meeting...
...choir sang two anthems: Haking's "Doth not wisdom cry," and Carl Pfiueger's "How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord...
...replace a book on its proper shelf than to leave it lying on the table. But it also takes more trouble to look over the ten or twelve tables in the reading room before finding a book, than to get it from the shelf where it belongs. Men forget that what they gain in the one instance they lose in the other. If every man would take the little trouble required to replace a book, all the users of the reading room would be naturally benefited. This will never come about till the sentiment among the readers is strong enough...
While we are congratulating the Advocate, let us not forget to say a word or two about ourselves. We have purchased a better stock of paper and an entirely new set of type, and in a few days we expect a new heading for the front page. The issues of the past two or three days have been much better typographically on account of these changes. In justification to ourselves, we wish to say that both the paper and the type were ordered before the appearance of that barbed arrow cast at us by the '88 board of the Advocate...
...remainder of the training season, and whoever intends at any time to present himself as a candidates must do so immediately and be ready to conform to anything which may be required of him. Our attention thus far has been directed toward the nine alone, but we do not forget that every class is, in part, responsible for its athletic teams, and a repetition of the disgraceful condition of its finances, in which the freshman foot-ball team found itself, would hardly be endured by the rest of the college...