Word: holding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Alpha Delta Phi society will hold its fifty-sixth annual meeting in New York on May 3 and 4, under the management of the Executive Council of the fraternity. The executive sessions will be secret, and will take place in the Masonic Temple. On the evening of May 3, there will be public literary exercises in the Metropolitan Opera House, and on the evening of May 4, Delmonico will provide the annual convention dinner, tickets for which will be $6 each. George William Curtis, Everett P. Wheeler, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, and the president, Hon. Joseph H. Choate, will speak...
...crew is not ready, the coxswain will hold his hand up high in the air, and after a pause, the three whistles will be repeated...
...opinion that football ought to be prohibited at all events, as being the most dangerous and brutalizing of all sports. It is true that men are occasionally injured seriously on the football field; but for that reason are we to cultivate effeminate dispositions and weak bodies? We hold that the game of football is a manly, invigorating, and ennobling sport. It teaches self-control, coolness at critical moments, quickness of motion, and gives a man that pluck and grit under difficulties that must always be of service in after life. The assertion is made that those who are training...
...player both in the field and at the bat. Nothing inspires a freshman team with a healthy confidence in themselves and a feeling of reliance on each other more than to win their first game, and this we sincerely hope will be done. Brilliant individual playing cannot hold out in the long run against steady team work, and it is to make every man understand thoroughly what team play means that games have been arranged. Every effort should be made to start out with a clear record of victories, in order that the result of the final game...
...athletic management have decided to hold separate class games. Suitable prizes have been offered for the various events, and the more promising contestants will be entered in the spring games, which occur...