Word: life
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pity that there are some men in college who cannot learn the common courtesies of life. We have been informed that a short time ago two freshmen took possession of one of the double courts on Holmes Field at two o'clock in the afternoon. Several times during the afternoon they left the court, fastening a racquet to the net as a token of possession, and amused themselves by watching the base-ball game. Several men were waiting for a court, but were evidently too courteous to take the one in question. This sort of thing continued until...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Doubtless the managers of the Library do as well as they can to make it serve the largest number, but occasionally they fail. Here is an instance of incongruity: I wished to take out a volume of Sparks' "Life of Washington." The card catalogue states that there are three copies of this work. I was told that two copies are not allowed to be taken from the Library, and that the third is reserved. Why, in the name of common sense, is not one of the two copies which may not be taken...
...deep chagrin that follows defeat, the relations between Harvard and Yale continue always cordial. There is behind the firm resolution to win, a feeling of mutual respect and hearty admiration that we think could hardly exist were not the colleges drawn together as they now are. The athletic life which every-where engages lively interest, and which affords endless opportunity for competition, comes surely to the surface, while the intellectual life in which competition is uncertain and unsatisfactory sinks beneath, but still exerts a far reaching and, we believe, an unimpaired influence on the community at large...
...Chapel last evening Dr. Edward Everett Hale preached the second of his series of sermons on the "Formation of Character." His subject was the connection between being and doing, between our religious belief and our active work in life. The last quarter of a century has witnessed a revolution in the methods of church work. The churches have begun to turn their attention to the needs of the times, education, foreign missions, prison reforms and temperance instead of wrangling over creeds and opinions. So we, too, must apply our beliefs to the affairs of life, for only by so doing...
...prize of $100,000 has been offered by the Russian National Academy for the best work on the life and reign of Alexander...