Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hissing serpents quivering in her hand...
Saturday, March 10. - 1. Horizontal bar. 2. Light-weight wrestling. 3. Vaulting with one hand. 4. Light-weight sparring. 5. Middle-weight wrestling...
...Thursday evening the following men had entered for the athletic meeting to-morrow at 11 A. M. at the Gymnasium. Vaulting (one hand): A. H. Latham, '77; F. W. Thayer and J. A. Wetherbee, '78; and F. B. Keene, '79. Vaulting (two hands): A. H. Latham, '77; F. W. Thayer and J. A. Wetherbee, '78; F. B. Keene, '79; and J. P. Livermore, L. S. S. Fencing: A P. Cushing, '78; C. L. Perkins, '79; C. B. Cory and J. H. Stebbins, L. S. S. Parallel bars: F. W. Thayer, '78, and J. T. Bowen, '79. Middle-weight wrestling...
...prayer by the class-chaplain followed, and then the orator was introduced. His theme was the connection between education and agriculture, and he proved conclusively, to himself at least, that the prosperity of a country depends upon the farmers, and that the cultivation of the soil ought to go hand in hand with the cultivation of the mind. He did not close without censuring the corruption of the times. The children of the so-called old families, he said, inherit more vices than virtues, and he wished to have it clearly understood that while some more favored collegians [sic] indulge...
...supposed to become acquainted, to some degree, with the strong and weak points of the students who take his elective, and the examination shows how far his estimate has been correct; further, it affords him an opportunity of giving a student credit for apparent improvement. On the other hand, a person unacquainted with the system on which the instruction has been carried, and unacquainted with the students themselves, is unable to form an accurate judgment of the value of an examination-book. It is not fair that a student should prepare for an examination under one instructor, and that...