Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...muscle, but that physical gain will hardly compensate for the loss in towels, soap, and other paraphernalia necessary for gymnasium work, which some poor individual seems to be continually suffering. I am one of the several miserable wretches who, thinking that the crossbars above the lockers in the lower part of the building are especially intended as the proper place wheron to hang towels, had the misfortune to hang mine there. I had the use of it for about three days, when it mysteriously disappeared. Thinking that some one had taken it by mistake, and that I should soon...
...weather prevented any football after the first game between '88 and '89, there were no games and really no championship has been won. The two lower classes may have forfeited the game and the championship, yet it nevertheless remains a fact that '89 did not beat the other classes, and so '89 is really not the champion class in foot-ball. It has therefore seemed advisable not to award championship cups, but to let it be understood that unless all the games are played no real chapship is to be awarded; yet '89 played a hard game with...
...Wendell's article on athletics in the current number of the Monthly seeks to prove that the faculty's position in regard to "professionalism" is a wrong one; and further, that betting tends to lower the tone of athletic sports...
...view of the general sentiment at Cornell that the turbulence between the two lower classes has been excessive, the sophomores have just held a meeting in which it was resolved that "We desparage and discourage a continuance of turbulence and that we refrain from any action which would reflect dishonor upon the University." A motion was also carried that "The freshmen whose pants had been decorated with a sophomore poster should be supplied with a new pair...
...world alone. No story could be more sad and pathetic. In it are clearly shown the influence of a good woman and the susceptibility of even hardened men to it. Few can read such a story without being firmly convinced of the necessity of meeting the men of the lower class on their own ground, and making them realize the responsibilities of a home and the effects of that terrible curse, rum. Surely the cause of temperance can have no better ally than this little book. [Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston...