Word: held
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Class of '74 held a meeting in M. U. H. last Tuesday, to elect a Class Poet, in place of C. A. Mackintosh, resigned. Mr. Richmond having been elected President, MR. ERNEST FRANCISCO FENOLLOSA was chosen Poet on the first ballot, by a large plurality. The Class then passed several votes regarding the boating finances, rejected a proposal for holding a Class-Supper, also one for inserting a memorial window in Alumni Hall, and then adjourned...
...ball may be caught on the bounce and carried; the player so carrying the ball may be "tackled" or "shouldered," but not hacked, throttled, or pommelled. No player may be held unless in actual possession of the ball...
...event of any player holding or running with the ball being tackled, and the ball fairly held, he may at once cry "have it down": he shall be allowed to place it on the ground unmolested; but he need not do so until his own side come...
Such is the course of study. At the end of each year, in the vacation, there is a meeting among the pupils of each class, and among the classes of the different lyceums of Paris. A similar assembly is held among the pupils of all the colleges and lyceums of France, during which a formal distribution of prizes is made to the leading scholars. When one has ended this course of study, he is ready to undergo the examinations for the degree of Bachelier-es-Lettres. Perhaps you would not be unwilling to learn what a bachelier is supposed...
...first place, then, What is it to give up sentiment? Religion, held by some writers to be of first importance, will lose much of its hold on human nature. The Mahometan and the Puritan, it is true, would be little affected, but those large portions of what is known as the Christian world, who build much upon ritual and the reverence due to antiquity, will suffer grievously, - a fact which deserves to be considered by all sentiment-destroyers. We must lose, too, or rather throw away, as useless and not money-making, that large part of history which teaches...