Word: hand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...society begins the year with larger capital on hand and greater membership than last year. The membership, however, does not mean so much capital as last year, for the price of membership tickets has been reduced from one dollar and a half to one dollar. At the meeting last evening the secretary presented the following report...
There was a large number of coaches. It is expected that there will be plenty on hand during the remaining seven or eight days of sever practice...
...character of its exhibits, is in its separateness the expression of the mistaken American idea. American children are the victims of the stern, practical life about. Childhood, which should be the time of light-hearted illusions, ends too early, if it even exists. But on the other hand, one of the best features of American life is the almost universal education of the youth...
...admitted to the school, even if they are not graduates of other institutions, provided they show satisfactory evidence of being well advanced in a special study. On the other hand, the fact that a man is a graduate does not of necessity admit him to the school. He must have attained a standing equal to that of the junior class in the undergraduate department...
...many a Harvard team has lost partly because it has had to fight a battle against Yale and part of Harvard. The students here have been altogether too prone to leave the gaining of victories entirely to the teams without feeling that they ought also to have a hand in the matter. Every one of us has heard time and time again of "Yale sand," "Yale pluck" and even "Yale luck"; yet what have these terms meant? Practically nothing but this, that the Yale supporters have not allowed themselves to conceive of anything but victory for their teams and their...