Word: liking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...CREW. - The senior Crew will begin work on Monday. All those who would like to try for the crew will please see me sometime before then...
...President Andrews of Brown, all men with wide reputations for fair-mindedness and sound judgment. The decision will change the character of the debates materially. Last year neither side felt sure of its ground, and both were unwilling to risk a decision. The debates, while conspicuously successful, were more like oratorical contests in which each man spoke largely for himself. Henceforth all this will be changed. The two universities, having tested each other's strength, are now ready for the real contests, and the debate of the 18th, will almost surely mark the first of a long series of contests...
...WHITMORE Jr.45 Hastings.'93 CREW. - The senior Crew will begin work on Monday. All those who would like to try for the crew will please see me sometime before then...
...this voice of the tempter? To some just starting out in life it is the voice of pleasure, of self, of indulgence; to others the voice of liberty and independence, and to others still the voice of success. To the first the tempter says now is the time, pleasure like champagne, drink it quick when you can best appreciate it; to the second, why be trammelled by laws and obedience, do as you please; to the third nothing succeeds like success. The only kings are the rail-road-kings, the only barons the coal-barons, the only lords the landlords...
...Bishops" by Pierre la Rose. It is a charmingly worded and sympathetic character-sketch, but after carrying one gently up to an apparent climax it leaves one in the air, with nothing to break one's fall, and the return to this mundane sphere is accompanied by something very like a dull thud...