Word: kept
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Father's life and that of son come together in the end. From Him we spring; to him we go. How great a thing it is that He is my father and I am his child! Creeds and doctrines disappear in face of realization, to him who has kept his life apart from evil...
Washington's Birthday is again at hand, and all the world, with the exception of Harvard, is deep in the perusal of Irving's works; but we, poor students, are kept close to the fast revolving grindstone, and are allowed no opportunity to learn the personal history of the Father of His Country. This complaint is time-honored, and doubtless will continue to be so, but still we repeat it in the vain hope that the rulers some time will hear our prayers. Why should not Harvard College fittingly observe this legal holiday? It certainly would be a benefit...
...society's organization was kept secret, but among the outward evidences of its existence that the "digs." nowadays termed "grinds," had, was a procession once every year. "This annual procession was an affair of great importance in the second term. After the procession the club would adjourn to Porter's Tavern, just beyond the Fitchburg railroad crossing at North Cambridge, and have a supper, commonly a very hilarious and noisy...
...June first. It began at 3.40 and ended at 7 p.m., being delayed by the "perverseness of the crowd, and the inability of the Medford police to keep them back." The Harvard nine went on to the field with their "tails up," took the lead at the start and kept it to a finish, blanking Lowell three times. The audience was partisan and disgusted with the game, and several times pushed into the diamond and stopped the playing. At one time, during the sixth inning, there was a long intermission for a fight between two egotistic and excited bystanders; cause...
...quickly as possible, the best teams giving a heave as they go down, and gaining several inches thereby. There are two ways of lying on the ropes, but all Harvard men pull with one leg across the rope, and the body resting on one side. The back is kept straight and most of the heave is made with the legs. At the word of the anchor, all three rope men "go down" for a hold, while the anchor, coming rapidly forward, makes a new knot; and all four go back with a heave. The knot is either...