Word: kept
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is great complaint that the captains of the various crews are not as considerate of each other as might be; the rowing room is often occupied longer than is at all necessary, and other crews kept in waiting...
...library petition is still at Bartlett's and has been signed by over three hundred men. The petition has been kept open to the students longer than was intended, because of the voluntary recess which many men took at Thanksgiving. In a matter of such vital interest to the whole college, no efforts ought to be spared on the part of each man to advance its success. During the few remaining days in which an opportunity will be afforded the students to sign the petition, we hope that every man who has not already signed will...
Here they find pecuniary aid in numberless "bursaries" and private benevolent institutions, while their inner man is kept in proper trim by distributions each year, by societies of thousands of meal checks. One of these latter organizations in Vienna, the "Committee for Student's Refectories," distributes annually 10,000 such checks...
...least three or four. The foot-ball season is over, and this, of course, diminishes the number of wet and bedraggled individuals; but on the other hand the crew men will soon settle down to their work, and their daily runs up North Avenue will have to be kept up in wet weather as well as in dry. When we add to this, the fact that the gymnasium is now overcrowded with other men who prefer that their clothing should be dry, we think that the gymasium authorities might exert themselves to remedy this defect...
Foot-ball practice this fall has kept a number of the candidates for the 'Varsidy crew away from the boat-house, and as a consequence the work done on the river this fall has been of a rather desultory kind. However, the captain of the crew has shown much personal activity in his coaching of the numerous candidates. Every afternoon when the weather permitted has been utilized. Sometimes the crew has gone out as an eight. The shell has been out about five or six times. Pair oared barges, however, are the boats which have been generally used...