Word: gained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Eighty per cent. was required for freshmen to gain admittance to the advanced Latin section...
With comfort or with business gain...
...with very great regret that we hear of the resignation of the Dean. No officer of the university has gained more entirely the respect and esteem of the students. His official dealings with them have ever been marked with consideration and courtesy. He has ever displayed a real interest in their welfare that has not failed to make itself felt. Student nature is much less demonstrative in its likes than in its dislikes. While it never hesitates to give expression, through the indirect but effective means of satire, to its disapproval of men or measures, it is always rather backward...
LAST year, when the section in Natural History IV. was so large, the place of recitation was removed from the Zoological Museum, where it was for the first part of the term, to Sever. This was a great gain, for not only was the recitation room itself preferable and more available, but also the ten minutes occupied in walking to and from the Museum could be used for the recitation. The question is now raised this year: Why should not Natural History I. be removed to Sever or to some other building within the Yard? Surely...
...defender of Lacrosse further says that in seniority that game ranks next to base ball and football. We do not understand how this argument is powerful, except in showing that Lacrosse has had the opportunity to gain a firm foothold in College, but has failed, and has in fact been eclipsed by cricket, though the latter is the newer sport. Had Lacrosse been able to obtain a high position in the estimation of our students, by common consent it would have had a field allotted to its use, and would have received pecuniary support, which is the willing and necessary...