Word: laying
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...explanation for the failure of the plan is due, in great part, the managers declare to the cost of raw food which almost doubled the estimates. If that is the case, the estimates must have been made without due care. We are loath to lay the charge of mismanagement upon any one or all of the executors of the scheme; yet, when a perfectly feasible plan utterly fails, there is certainly a deal of blame to be attached somewhere...
...college whom everybody would like to see playing foot ball. If such men could sink personal considerations and see only the urgency of the need calling them, the difficulty would be in a fair way toward solution. Of course it is a delicate matter to urge men to lay aside their own preferences; nothing but the pressing need of the college, if it is to be represented by a strong eleven, could justify such a step. The bald facts are simply these: several of the best candidates for the eleven are laid up with serious injuries, and Captain Trafford must...
Saturday afternoon on Manhattan Field (New York City,) Princeton defeated Yale in the third and deciding game of their series. A crowd of fully 7,000 spectators witnessed the contest, and although it was evident from the first that the advantage lay with Princeton, yet the game on the whole was an exciting one. After the end of the fifth inning with the score 3 to 2 against her, Yale failed to score again; while Princeton made two more runs in the seventh...
...faith, manifested by works. Here we have a standard by which to judge men's lives, and also an organization as ours. We are great in the University, in proportion to the service we render. This is the standard on which we should judge the past year, and lay our plans for the future...
...response to the request of several of our graduates in New York, we went to New York, met there Mr. Adee to whom we submitted the following proposition, with request that he would lay it before the Yale authorities, namely...