Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prominent a position as does President Robinson, deliberately states it as his conviction that the students who hold positions on the various athletic teams are wont to make their studies secondary to their work in the field, we feel that so sweeping a statement ought to be carefully analyzed. Let us, for Harvard may fairly be said to represent the American University in its most ideal form, look at the question from a Harvard standpoint. Are our athletes conspicuous for a superabundance of bodily strength gained at the expense of a corresponding loss in mental power? Hardly, we think...
...strongest and instancing in proof his position in the class of '84 in college. "The suggestion that he would have been blackballed if he had been white," says Mr. Stone, "is just silly. If that club in Washington does not choose to sit down with colored men, let them say so like men and take the consequences; don't let them try to beg off by making insinuations against an honorable...
...have emerged, at last, from the dark valley of the semis, and find ourselves to-day once more upon the level and pleasant plain of every-day student life. Life is very endurable now, with the semis just passed, and the finals yet dim in the distance. But let us remember the virtuous resolutions made while frantically struggling to get up four minth's work in a single night,- resolutions to master each day's work as it becomes due. For, slowly, yet very surely, the inevitable finals are creeping on, when once more will "the mourners go about...
...Let us take up the objections to this paln in order. It will be urged that alumni would be rusty in the old, and ignorant of the new rules. But the men chosen would be those who take an interest in such matters, and who would make it their business to keep posted. The changes in rules from year to year, are not so numerous but that a recent graduate could readily pick them...
...around him, living sacrifices on the altar of his divinity, who will never smile upon him. Young man, be not deceived; trust her not, she's fooling thee." You cannot,-we are sorry to blast your high-blown ambition by the revelation,-cannot yodel. Requiescat in pace, and let us too requiescat...