Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...management needs the help of every man who can sing. Candidates are wanted for all the parts, and men are especially urged not to hang back on account of diffidence. The management has asked us to say an especial word to the freshmen and other men just entering college. It has been often unfortunately found necessary to issue several calls before the new men understand thoroughly the nature of the organization, the position which it occupies in college, and the worth of a place upon it. This year we hope that the new men will understand at the outset...
...only her regular contests with Andover. It was only natural that the two schools should, as they always have done, keep together. Now, however, the faculty at Andover has removed the restrictions, and the academy has become a member of the association. But now Exeter in turn seems to hang back. If she consults her own best interests, she will join the Interscholastic Association, and that right speedily...
...Long Charles" is an interesting character sketch of a negro, "one of those questionable characters who hang about respectable neighborhoods, doing odd jobs for the house-wives and filching a living from back doors." The dialect of the darkey is not always consistent, but on the whole the sketch has some power...
...obliged to wear outer wrappings of one kind or another on the way to one's lectures, but what to do with these garments when one has arrived at the lecture room is often a puzzie. There are very few rooms where there is any chance to hang up coats and hats; the result is that a man has to sit beside his damp clothing throughout an hour, much to the discomfort of both himself and those about him. We see no reason why, in the smaller rooms at least, suitable hooks should not be placed in convenient places...
...good hold on the water until the stroke was partially pulled through, while Yale 'caught' the water right at the beginning. In the recover there was also a marked difference, Yale taking it so slowly on their slides as to give the observer the impression that there was a 'hang.' Harvard, on the other hand, made a quick recover, and the arms, bodies and slides looked as if they were thrown aft in a bunch, the blade being thrown quickly down to the water at the catch." In 1887 the same difference was observable, though Harvard had a much faster...