Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...good models. This course, therefore, should only be taken in connection with another elective or extra in Latin, except in those cases - unfortunately too rare - where a student is willing to undertake the reading of considerable Latin by himself. It is hardly a course for those who wish to "keep up their Latin a little," or "who never could do anything with Latin prose, and want to learn...
...pleasant view from our windows. The greenness of the grass-plots, however, only renders more evident the bareness of their edges, where all the grass has been worn away by the feet of those students who are already asserting the privilege of American citizens to despise all warnings to "Keep off the grass." It would not seem too much to expect that the students should do all that is in their power to make the Yard look well, especially when all that is required of them is to walk only in the paths and to be careful not to drop...
...seldom considered of much importance by the young recruit, who is all anxiety to get a musket and parade about the streets to the admiration of the fairer sex and of the throngs of little ragamuffins who follow his march. Judging from the various positions which different men keep in the ranks, we fear that they have not been carefully instructed in the rudiments...
...mentioned next to Holworthy, although there is no doubt that Matthews will press her hard for the second place. Weld rows a more finished stroke than Matthews, but the crew appears to lack material. Matthews has more strength than form, the boat rolls, and the men do not keep time as a six-oar crew should. No. 5 dips his oar too deep, and the bow is quite apt to cover more than the blade. Two or three weeks more of training would work a wonderful improvement in this crew, and even as it is they may surprise every...
...Academy sent a delegation of Freshmen some one thousand strong, with two thousand eight hundred Proctors to keep them in order. Many thousand other children from the High Schools and Seminaries of our great metropolis were also present...