Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with all your might. Avoid being an amateur. The essential thing is the habit of thinking and working. There is no pleasure in vacation unless work comes before and after it. Begin to acquire the habit of work, and the effort to keep it lessens. Let the man of leisure remember the debt he owes to the public for its protection of himself and his property. He can pay this debt by working in public undertakings and charities where no pay can be given. But there is room nowhere for the dabbler...
...Please let me add that I do not have in mind a rough burlesque like the antiques and horribles who make our Fourth hideous. There could be any number of ludicrous take-offs and droll fancies, yet well, and picturesquely arranged...
...let. - Front room in the yard; Thayer 19. Bonus given. Apply at Bursar's, or Thayer...
Again, as you say, let the arrangements be made at once; why should not a committee of students be appointed to draw up plans? or better still, let the Conference Committee take action in the matter. Surely this is a thing in which all professors and undergraduates should be alike interested...
...minutes '88 had about a foot of rope. The '88 men now took a little rest, leaning back and seeming to enjoy the prospect. '86 tried to recover an inch or two but the '88 team continued to take in rope. At the end of four minutes '86 had let out some eighteen inches. A few more powerful heaves now settled the ludicrous contest, and '88 won with over two feet of extra rope on her side of the chalk line. The sophomores did not seem enthusiastic enough over the victory to utter even a cheer, and the champion team...