Word: gained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...influence of the recently-organized league. Steps have been taken to organize a lawn tennis club, and it is hoped that that sport so popular at the East will be introduced here with success. The "Co-eds" should favor it as it will give them a chance to gain renown as athletes (?). Western leagues of base-ball and foot-ball have been formed among several of the Western colleges, and the winner on each is to play the club winning the championship of the Eastern colleges. This will probably take the Rugby Team of the University of Michigan...
...anxious to obtain it if they can do so without making any return for it. Taken as a whole the advertisers who patronize our papers are the most reliable firms in Boston. Many advertise simply because they wish to support our college enterprises, and not because they expect to gain much by their advertisements. We hope that our readers will bear this in mind when they wish to make purchases, and, after having looked over the advertising columns of all of our college papers carefully, decide to patronize those who patronize...
...Shanghai and so ill-treated as to excite the indignation of resident foreigners and missionaries. The primary cause of this treatment was the false reports of the Chinese officials in this country, which were aggravated by the avarice of subordinate officials at Shanghai, who sought their own personal gain at the boys' expense, and in one case ran off with their money. The boys are homesick for America. Their relatives taunt them with being "foreign devils." One of them writes: "I wish I could return to dear, philanthropic New England, where teachers are better than mothers, where friends are better...
...especially true of those more indefinite subjects in which mental reasoning, and not the mere effort of memory, enters largely into the consideration of work done. But when a man reads his book over to his professor, he seizes that opportunity of personal intercourse by which he may gain a definite idea of how well or how badly he has done in the examination. Many a man does not clearly know what he has right, especially when original reasoning is required of him. But probably no man who responds to this professor's request will leave his presence without having...
...conception and scholarly treatment his music to Sophocles' tragedy, which to our taste is the most finished specimen of musical workmanship produced in this country. . . Prof. Paine's music is his own. It has individuality of style, and his themes impress themselves on the memory at once, and gain a beauty by repeated hearing...