Word: lull
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Rutgers.- Bishop, Thompson, Esseltyn, Lull, Meyers, Whitenack, Collier, rushers; Terhune (captain), quarter-back; Stokesbury, Morris, half-backs; Elbing. full back...
Though, during the lull in athletics and the more widely noticeable events at Yale, which is necessarily brought on by the season of the year and the near approach of our semi-annual examinations, the university is brought but little to the outside world, there is, in reality, a good deal of life and activity within her walls. It is an activity in the inner and social life of the university and in preparation for the work of the coming year. President and Mrs. Dwight who have already given a reception to the students of the scientific department, give another...
...Without wishing to reflect at all upon the managers, for the lack of management displayed, we do desire to register our disapproval of the use of the gymnasium for such a purpose in the future. The invitation to a few of the students, a sop to Cerberus, will not lull the students in general to overlook the inconveniences arising from the preparation of the gymnasium for general social purposes, the danger from a slippery floor, and the misplacement of apparatus. We do not wish to grumble, or seem unreasonable; we would simply uphold the old mixim, of "a place...
...meeting of the committee is a repition of the futile efforts of the last to accomplish something. It is simply apalling to consider the amount of learned thought which is displayed in the ever recurring and ever instructive "voted to adjourn." We are glad to see that, in the lull of the great athletic problem as to which college lost the most blood in the glorious foot-ball campaign of last season, the seniors of Williams feel called upon to declare themselves in favor of a more extensive study of Physiology. But is not this tinged with a little...
...past years by incessant complaints of the thought-lessness of those musically-inclined students who persist in keeping up a vigorous course of piano or violin practice during examination time, greatly to the annoyance and indignation of their temporarily studious neighbors. But this year there seems to be a lull in this species of vexation. Our sanctum is still the receptacle of communications complaining of examination rooms too hot, or of examination rooms too cold: we are still urged to continue the agitation of the plank walk question, but, up to date, we have not received a single complaint about...