Word: handed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...present the average subscription is below the required amount. The committee, therefore, request the members of '98 to send their subscriptions to the treasurer as soon as possible. They also request that all who are able should enclose the first instalment as it is desirous to have money on hand to meet current expenses. In years past single subscriptions have reached as high as $500, and '98 should attempt to equal this record. Considering the fact that the subscription is payable in five annual instalments we trust that each man will give as much as possible and as soon...
Every one who knows the particulars of Henney's danger and escape feels that the whole situation was absolutely inexcusable. The fire spread with remarkable rapidity, it is true. On the other hand it took place in the middle of the day, in a crowded part of the town, and within a few hundred yards of a station of the City Fire Department. When the emergency arose means of escape from the building proved inadequate, and the performance of the fire department was nothing short of disgraceful...
...work of the firemen, they didn't do any worth mentioning until the crisis was passed. One ladder-truck was on hand with reasonable promptness, but it was fully ten minutes later before a ladder was raised. In the meanwhile the man had been forced to jump and not firemen but students broke his fall with the life net. In the course of time more apparatus arrived and more men, but even then the lack of training and still more evident lack of capable direction were apparent. There was plenty of shouting by all hands and very little "teamwork...
Several years ago, however, the same man published both books while he was in College, thus depriving another man of the opportunity of paying for the greater part of a year's education. Not satisfed with this he selfishly copyrighted both books, refused to hand down the copyrights; but retaining them, annually rented out the books so that each year there was paid to him for the privilege of publishing each book several hundred dollars, which decreased the earning of the man who really did the work. It was a trick of the most selfish nature-one which...
...subject is treated strongly and sensible in "From Either Side." "Of Passing Moment" is a a dry little sketch of a typical college goody. "Tomasso's Triumph" over his own hot Italian blood is bright and fluent. A new field has been opened by the author of "An Unclean Hand of Providence," who describes an incident on the "long, low whalebacks (the lake men call them 'pigs')" which ply the Great Lakes...