Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...PEABODY and his family will go abroad in the spring, and his house is to be let. Prayers, however, will not be suspended...
...Association have therefore decided to raise the price of admission to the Winter Meetings. If, with the increased price, there is an attendance at these as large as there was last year, a long step will have been taken towards paying for the repairs on the track. Let us hope, therefore, that the Gymnasium Meetings will be financially as successful this year as they have always been in every other respect in the past...
...townsmen in proportion to numbers. In the words of an esteemed contemporary: "Just think of this a moment; push it to the ultimate, and I think you will have no difficulty in seeing it." "It is a curious fact," however, that men don't seem to see it. Let a student make a jolly night of it, and on his way home levy a loan on a signboard, and all the patrons of the free lunch counter will demand to be led to the charge. ... While every man has a right to practise total abstinence if he wishes...
...Yale we shall probably want at least two representatives in each event, and possibly more; and it must be remembered that all of the above are events in which much careful practice is absolutely necessary. To this list of events, for which we have absolutely no representatives at present, let us add the Hurdles, the 1/2-Mile Run, and the Tug of War. For this latter event, in which we are totally unskilled, we ought to have a team already at work, for it is a game in which science (gained only by long practice) almost invariably wins if the teams...
...every event on our programmes, and we shall hope in the spring to see, by the increased number of men working every day on the track, that the efforts of the Athletic Association to promote the interest of our field sports have not been thrown away. At any rate, let us all have the satisfaction of feeling that, if the cup goes elsewhere next year, it will not be for lack of earnest endeavors and conscientious work on the part of every man who feels now that he could do something in athletics if he would only conquer his laziness...