Word: gain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Foot-ball has changed. It cannot help changing from year to year from the very fact that competition is constantly urging it forward. One party in trying to surpass the other will find some new method, some weak point in its adversaries' tactics, which, properly made use of, will gain for it the desired end. It is precisely the same in any other matter where competition takes a part, whether we confine ourselves to athletics or not. And our game of foot-ball is not an exception. The time is so short for actual training; the matches...
...swiping" to the sophomores and often become unpopular in consequence; but a simple refusal to comply is not regarded in the same light. We hope there is no one in the freshman class so cowardly as not to stand by his principles; or mean enough to think to gain favor in the eyes of the upperclassmen by ostentatiously acquiescing in their demands...
...encouraged at Harvard that the poorer students are compelled by the force of public opinion either to incur expenses beyond their means, or to lose caste among their fellows. It is necessary to the welfare of the university that young men of few resources can here gain an education, and any reasonable improvements, which shall prove efficient, toward such an end will, we are certain, be as readily acquiesced in by the wealthy students of Harvard as by Mr. Garrison himself...
...last time as a class. Nothing that we can say will fully express the thoughts which must fill the mind of every senior as his class day dawns upon him. All the memories of four years crowd upon him and force home the conviction, hard at first to gain, that college days are days of the past. The present senior class have seen many changes at Harvard since their entrance as freshmen, and it is said that the present year will witness a greater change than any yet inaugurated, - the abolition of the present marking system. But the present graduating...
...seldom that an instructor is afforded the opportunity of becoming so closely related with the undergraduates as has been given Mr. Jones in his work, but it is even more seldom that an instructor has been able so to gain the universal good will of the students with whom he has been so related. We wish Mr. Jones every success for the future and trust that he may be speedily induced to return to his work at Harvard...