Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...minutes on account of the game tomorrow with Brown. John Cranston was out on the field and spent his time in teaching the centre men to open up holes for the backs. Emmons and Waters gave all their attention to getting a compact interference which should start quickly and keep together...
...possibility of participation in the Harvard - Yale debates, which for the past few years have attracted the attention of the college world. So far Harvard has been invariably successful in these debates. The formation of a freshman society should be an aid to those whose task is to keep the record clean...
...said, that there was the slightest desire shown by the students to learn to read and to speak well. He accounted for this in part by the fact that men had so much less time to devote to reading now than in the past century, and in order to keep up with the times they let the grand old writers go, to spend their time in reading magazines and new novels. He spoke further of the immense practical value it was to a man in starting out in life to be able to speak well and clearly, - with confidence...
...tending to make the game quicker and more lively. The old form of opening play has been abolished and the new rules require a bona fide kick of more than ten yards. A new official has been added, to be known as a linesman, whose duty shall be to keep time, mark the distance gained, and give testimony to unnecessary roughness, offside play, and holding...
...roots; for if the roots secrete food and thereby transmit life to the plant, yet the joyous consummation of that life is in the blossoms, which alone bear the seeds that distribute and renew it in other growths. Exercise is good for the muscles of the mind and to keep it well in hand for work, but the true end of Culture is to give it play, a thing quite as needful...