Word: holding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...nervous! In college the demand is equally imperative. Men's manners here are an imitation; given any unusual set of circumstances, not covered by conventional rules, and dozens of men who call themselves polite behave like barbarians. Their religious belief is a mere acceptance of family traditions; why they hold it is as mysterious as is to the Freshman the query, "Why am I in college?" Their knowledge, too, they hold as some talisman to be used, apparently, in imposing upon others, but nevertheless as something so entirely separate from their own characters that the very mention...
...seems to me, indeed, that we need something of the sort here. The University - small, classic, and containing more interests than it can peaceably hold - may well be compared to Greece itself. The societies, of which we all are so proud, are not unlike the elegant states which grew up in the genial climate of Attica and of the Peloponnesus, - the modern prototype of which may be found in the shadow of the elms of the College Yard. And, to carry the simile a little further, at the risk of offending some very good friends of mind, the grim body...
...they get another run until the seventh, while Harvard scored two runs in the fifth, three in the sixth, and two in the seventh. In the seventh inning Brown scored one, the man being brought in on a balk by Ernst. In the next inning they seemed to get hold of our pitching, and on three base hits, aided by eight errors by our Nine, scored four unearned runs...
Under the second head are laid down the laws relating to prayers, from which, it appears, that all students, besides being expected to hold private prayers, were obliged to "be present morneing and evening at publick prayers at the accustomed houres; viz: ordinarily at six of the clock in the morneing, from the tenth of March at Sun riseing, and at five of the clock at night all the yeare long...
...transfer is a thing of the past, and it has been said that if one man wants to give up a room which another is anxious to get, it is impossible for the thing to be done. He who first drew the room, it is said, must hold it, no matter how many homeless wretches may long to rest their limbs within. We have examined the matter and find that the case is not quite as bad as this. One cannot give his room to any particular man, but the new arrangement provides a way by which he can make...