Word: kept
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...aside as sacred to that saint. The court is strewn with rushes and hung with green stuffs on that day, probably to represent the wilderness in which St. John preached. At one end of the court stands the Monument Tower, where all the college archives are kept, and next to it the Founder's Tower, lately restored and furnished throughout by Sir Gilbert Scott, the mist renowned restorator in England. To the right of these towers stands the chapel, a beautiful specimen of architecture, with its fine entrance porch covered with ivy. The interior, although fine, is not striking...
...professor, had occasion to go out for a moment, while the goody was at work there, he invariably locked the door behind him. His return was sometimes delayed; once he kept her locked up over an hour. One goody took care of his room many years, receiving a handsome weekly fee for her extra trouble. The janitor of the building was the only person whom he would trust alone in his room. Some years since, a student who roomed over him come home in that stage of vinous fermentation known as "gloriously tight." The elated, if misguided young man stumbled...
...gentlemen, you mustn't do this! Gentlemen, you must stop this at once!" Tradition says that the sophomore took the professor up in his arms, as tenderly as a baby, carried him back to the chancellor's room, placed him inside and shut the door, while the fushers kept on rushing...
...Bancroft, the ex-captain of the Cambridge crew, a young lawyer at the "Hub." receives pay for coaching every spring the wearers of the crimson at New London, in the annual race with Yale. Some other eastern colleges, however, have sinned in this respect more than Harvard. Yale kept her skirts clean until last year, but last summer Jones and Hubbard, the pitcher and catcher of her champion nine, helped the Athletics to win the America. Association championship, and Smith, the centre-fielder, played with the Bostons who were first in the League contests. Ward, the pitcher...
...college in his report states that discipline among the students has required the action of the faculty in but few cases during the year, and that on all ordinary occasions the unruly element, which may be presumed to exist in any body of a thousand young men, is kept in control by the powerful sentiment of the great majority, which has proved a far more effective instrument for the maintenance of good order and gentlemanly conduct than the system of minute regulations formerly in force. The college library has received an accession of 8441 books during the year...