Word: lending
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...same material, instead of the present sombre gray ones, which they have worn in past years, when waiting their turn at the bat, and at other times when engaged in the most active exercises. The new uniforms, if adopted, will be particularly rich in appearance and will lend more color to the scene on Holmes and please the eye of the fine arts professors. It is to be hoped that the members of the cricket club will grant the desired permission and then the nine will be able to make the experiment, and everyone will have a chance to express...
...have their rush on returning to Cambridge will be better able to tell who is who and to distinguish friends from foes. The desirability of special features in the parade, devised and carried out by private parties and clubs, cannot be overstated, as a large number of such exhibitions lend variety to the display. The general committee are endeavoring to add as many novelties as they are able; but the worth of the display must depend largely on private individuals. Every suggestion of a suitable device will no doubt receive attention and aid in making this the finest turnout which...
...discussion of the purposes and results of the present political campaign will furnish an opportunity for what, judging from the late canvass of the college, should prove a most highly instructing review of the political outlook. Every student should feel it incumbent upon him to attend and lend his voice to a popular decision. We who are the future citizens of the country can well afford a preliminary study of the present political methods. The close vote of the college should provoke a determined stand on both sides. The purpose of the Union is highly practical and deserves the enthusiastic...
...presence there ceased to exist some time ago. As the ball games which remain to be played will all take place on Holmes, everyone who is interested enough in the games to go to them, having to pass to the east of the laboratory, will, we doubt not, lend his cry to this appeal of ours. We cannot say more except to add that we hope the nuisance will have disappeared before the game on Saturday, as too little time remains to correct the evil before this afternoon...
...call for reform in the telegraph office in Cambridge has been made, and we wish to lend the weight of our influence to the move. The service supplied to us by the Western Union, to which company the office belongs, is certainly wretched as the regulations show. The business people and citizens of Cambridge are subject to this inconvenience all the year round, and must feel it considerably. The same is true of the body of students, who, connected with all parts of the country by family ties, are often subjected to great personal inconvenience by the delay in receiving...