Word: light
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...become so fashionable at Yale for single scullers and other venturesome oarsmen to upset in the harbor, that a light skiff is kept in readiness at the boat house to rescue all those who think enthusiasm the only thing needed to make a man an accomplished oarsman...
...three-quarter miles; and yet when the Spartan Ladas dropped down dead on completing this course, apparently it was not considered a matter of great surprise, for it was evidently thought a wonderful performance for an athlete to be able to run so far. Now our runners would make light of such a distance and races for twenty miles or more continually take place...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - The judgement pronounced by the CRIMSON Wednesday upon the charges against Williams seems to have been rather hasty, even if the facts as stated by Mr. Allen are viewed in the light most unfavorable for Williams. Mr. Allen's communication refers to the second of the charges only, and as no evidence has yet been brought forward to support the first charge, it would seem strange that the CRIMSON should consider it sustained. It is true that the statement in Tuesday's issue proves nothing, but it is no less true that Williams is not called upon...
...over the date of a foot-ball game with Harvard to play Yale, appears in to-day's CRIMSON. This answer, coming as it does from the manager of the 'Varsity eleven, is official and the facts presented throw the management of the Williams eleven into a rather bad light. The communication of to-day refuses the statement made in yesterday's communication, and shows conclusively that a game had been arranged for the 23d of October which was deliberately cast aside. After a careful consideration of both sides of the controversy, it seems as if the charges against Williams...
...from the "Dickinsonian" this morning, touches upon a subject that may in the future become one of the great college questions. It is well worth the reading, for though the subject that caused its publication has little interest to us, yet the question therein shown in so clear a light concerns us as nearly as it ever can Dickinson College. To put the matter in its plainest light it is this: A student finds himself in difficulty, a difficulty which has nothing to do with his studies. The faculty take up the case and try to inform themselves accurately...