Word: guards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the tone of student thought is unhealthy and opposed to more sacred things? Here we are on difficult ground, but student thought is not opposed to religion. It is true that we do not have revivals; nor do we turn our Mott Haven team into a Salvation guard. But where is the sensible, rational person who will claim that external observances prove inward convictions? What right has any one to prefer upon mere hear-say the gravest accusations that intimate knowledge can justify? We have probably, in full abundance, all the vices of other young men, but what justice...
...always have to remain in Cambridge during the vacations, either because the distance to be travelled homeward is too long, or because those who have to travel it are too "short;" and as usual there were left in Cambridge during the last recess one or two men to guard each entry of the dormitories in the absence of the proctors, and in all, seventy-five or a hundred to form quite an active colony around the wooden screen in the Memorial dining-hall. These were the men who moved about the yard Tuesday afternoon rather slowly and aimlessly, watching...
...wishes to crib feels justified in outwitting a proctor. The very presence of a spy serves as an incentive to underhanded tricks. When a student is placed on his honor, and and when betrayal of that trust, means dishonor and disrepute among his fellows, he is under stronger guard than when a proctor is stationed over him. A student who would crib under such circumstances, deserves social ostracism by students, and public expulsion by the faculty. If a strong sentiment could be established in college supporting an opinion such as the above, in regard to cribbing when men are allowed...
...well known that discontent is widespread among the alumni. This is not the place to discuss at length the causes of this want of harmony and of this discontent, but many believe that prominent among them is the lack of any central power to direct the course and guard the interests, not of this or of that department, but of the university in all its departments. What is needed is organization. Chaos may be full of energies, but those energies are pretty sure to be ill-directed and ineffectual. That so great an institution should be ruled by an active...
...that lawn tennis is so universally popular, a short account of its history will prove interesting. The inventor of the game was Major Walter Wingfield, of Her Majesty's Body Guard, and he introduced it in 1874 under the name of "Spharistike." The first match ever played was in Denbighshire, England, and the first public contest took place in 1875. The game was popular from the start. The trade offered Major Wingfield a royalty of $1.25 a set on his invention, which would have yielded him by this time over $1,000,000. He declined the offer, however...