Word: give
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Give me your congratulation...
...English 6, one hour a fortnight, in common. If the student, in laying out his college course, has planned to take these two electives in his Senior year, what is he to do? Is it not better to take them both, even with the inconvenience about recitation, than to give up either entirely? There are but few electives in which a diligent student will find an occasional absence from recitation an irreparable loss, and these few he naturally will favor in case of a conflict. In short, this rule seems to us another instance of the spirit which, when granting...
...heartily indorse the views of the Advocate in regard to printing in the Catalogue the names of the holders of "Scholarships." Such a course will give an uncalled-for publicity to the names, and the fact that it will gratify the curiosity of a few is no reason for adopting it. The matter is a delicate one, and suggests the need of rewards for scholarship itself, in addition to the present general provision for pecuniary aid. If the Faculty persist in the course upon which they have determined, we may expect to find the names of those who hold "scholarships...
...right to refuse any entry." That is, without defining an amateur, they announce that they will only receive amateur entries, and then leave it to their stewards to decide what an amateur really is. It would seem that some body of men might take the matter in hand, and give a decisive answer to this very puzzling conundrum. When an American committee announce that "this regatta is open only to amateurs," we always find in the next paragraph, "we define an amateur to be," etc., etc. Nothing could be fairer or plainer than this, and unless Henley really fear...
...hoped that this race will fill well, and that all those who start will finish. A race is never won until you've passed the post, and even if beaten it looks much better to see a man ride his race out pluckily, and not give it up because he is not ahead...