Word: give
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...drunkenness, you will find as you grow more familiar with college life that a great many men talk about getting drunk who seldom drink too much. You will find, too, that many of the fellows who in the beginning of the course have occasionally been overcome by punch, soon give it up. And you may generalize from this to other sorts of dissipation, which I have neither the space nor the inclination to specify...
...three, - Herrick to have two yards' start. Herrick won the first heat in ten and one fourth seconds, coming in ahead fully the distance allowed. When two thirds of the way in the second, he (Herrick) slipped and strained a cord in his leg, and was obliged to give up. Summerhase took the second heat in ten and one half seconds, and ran the third alone in eleven seconds. Herrick was thus disabled for the game. Fortunately Mr. Russell was able to play, and, donning Herrick's suit, took his place in the field. The game began about eleven...
...student. You don't want to seem a prig, nor yet a vulgarian. I should advise you to avoid shingles, for everybody has them; and men who have not taste enough to choose anything better hang them up in place of pictures. Medals, however, are pretty, and the ribbons give a warm color to a wall that nothing else...
...would have made the races what they should have been. It is unfortunate that the visit of the Foot-Ball Team took place at the time appointed for the Club-races, for the general principle must be recognized that to be successful in athletics in all the branches we give our attention to, one branch should not interfere with any other...
...surprise to one who intended to pursue a course in Fine Arts with ardor to find that Mechanics had been put in its place. Is the elective system meant to work in two ways: we choosing what we wish to take, and then the professors what they wish to give us? I remain...