Word: hand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that class feeling is not to-day of the same strength and character which was common to classes of fifty years ago, still there are a few old customs like the junior dinner which we can well cling to. We hope the proper persons will take this matter in hand at once, and see that it is carried...
...always easy to choose the best course even in studies, and many men seem only to desire to choose the line of least resistance, a course which does not always produce the best results. The best advice is to go to work and to do what is at hand. Do not scorn to begin low down and work up, for this is far better than to start at the top and stand still or fall lower. There are great possibilities for doing good in every profession but whatever you do the best thing to do is to join in with...
...championship events, the three mile run. It will be proposed to amend Article 29 of the Laws of Athletics by striking out the sentence which is numbered 2 and which reads "lifting from the ground the foot nearest the circumference of the circle while the hammer is in hand" and by inserting directly after the sentence reading "the hammer shall be thrown from a circle seven feet in diameter," the following sentence, "the contestant may assume any position he wishes in making an attempt...
...frame 52 inches in length by 39 inches in breadth, which contains the individual pictures of each man on the team and large group pictures of the Harvard, Princeton and Yale teams. The pictures of the Princeton and Harvard teams are placed in the upper right and left hand corners respectively, with that of the Yale eleven in the center. The individual pictures are arranged over the remaining space. Between the pictures are printed the results of the games with Harvard and Princeton and the total score for the season. The work was done by Pach...
...practice has led many to think of a graduate player as a professional player. The man whom we wish to keep out of college athletics is not the skillful man, but the man who barters his skill for pecuniary gain, whether in the shape of actual cash in hand paid or of financial aid extended indirectly; and this individual is not so likely to appear in the undergraduate department. I don't for a moment think that it has yet reached the ultimate point, but when that ultimate point is reached, it is this, that a man who begins...