Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...understand, then," said I, "that anything, from Rabelais to Scarron, may be read and conned eight hours of the day, within these walls, by any lad of fifteen, and yet not read, outside, by any man under eighty. Here are your books; take them back to their alcoves to be purified by the dust of ages and dog-eared by interested youth. Well, can you give me Praed's poems...
SCENE, a game of clumps. "Is it in a work of fiction?" "Yes." "Written at the beginning of the Christian era?" "Yes." ABSENT-MINDED MAN (eagerly). "Is it in the Bible?" (Fact...
...entries been public. The only reason for keeping the entries secret is, that men are often deterred from entering by seeing that some one of whom they are afraid has entered; but this argument applies much more strongly to the system of secret entries, under which a man, being never sure who his opponents are to be, will always believe that the person he does not wish to meet has entered against...
...where there is only one entry. The chief object of the H. A. A. is to encourage athletics here. Now, as the contestants in many of the events of the in-door meeting practise together daily, it is well known beforehand who is likely to win; and often the man whose chances are best is left to enter the contest alone. Hence, under the present rule, a man is actually discouraged from trying to excel, knowing that if he acquires a decided superiority over others, no one will enter against him, and he will lose all chances...
...reviving class feeling has been put on a substantial footing. The old club system tended to make the class feelings till less, and yet developed no club feeling to take its place. The class feeling is small enough nowadays at best. With the Elective System and large classes, a man soon loses his class identity; but in after-life it is by this, more than by anything else, that he is remembered by his college contemporaries, so that these contests, which for a time at least draw a sharp line of distinction between the classes, serve a very good purpose...