Word: leste
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bring success to a meeting, and if every man who has any claim to proficiency at all will only take hold and do his part, the success of the meeting is assured beyond doubt. There is always a strong tendency in freshmen athletics for the men to hold back, lest they be suspected of "pushing themselves forward," and so "make themselves ridiculous," but any such feeling is based only on a false sense of modesty, for the college will welcome and will appreciate any attempts of the members of the freshmen class to make their meeting a success...
...unloose, and, lest it trip...
...claim for existence it has a strong one ; and if the old society cannot gain enough energy to successfully prosecute its work, let a new one be formed that can. No society could have a better purpose and aim than such a one, but it must use every guard lest it strengthen rather than destroy the evil of drinking here by bringing ridicule upon itself...
...provided with one very soon. A part of the boat house has been partitioned off for the housing of the University shell, and is kept continually bolted, barred and locked. Nobody enters there unless he is a member of the crew or a coach. There is great anxiety lest some one interested in the Harvard crew may see and report to them something about Yale's peculiar boat and the new style of rigging. Matters have come to such a pass nowadays that the crew resort to all sorts of tricks to deceive those who are watching them. They will...
...being bombarded with petitions from the friends and enemies of the mimetic art. Placed in this trying situation, the vice-chancellor, in accordance with time-honored practice, will probably take the wrong view and deprive the 34,000 inhabitants of Cambridge of every opportunity of seeing plays, lest the tender and inexperienced minds of the undergraduates should be corrupted by sights which they of course, never have a chance of beholding elsewhere. There was a time, as some people may remember, when the introduction of railways into the sacred precincts of Alma Mater was considered equally dangerous to the purity...