Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...gratified, we would like to suggest that, among the other modern improvements which are to be introduced, there should be a director appointed, competent to tell the men who use the Gymnasium what sort of exercise and how much of it will suit their several constitutions. Every man who enters the new Gymnasium should be examined by a person with some knowledge of medicine, and not be obliged, as at present, to depend on his own experience, or, in many cases, inexperience, for a knowledge of what he is fitted for. If this were done, we should reap the whole...
...show, the examinations cover less ground than do our examinations for second-year honors; so that the Association offers only one contest which we are not better provided with at home, namely, the contest in oratory. Even this bids fair to lose its place on the programme, and the man who urges its abolishment is the stanchest friend of the Association, Dr. McCosh. In its place he would have a discussion of "live topics," - a change so startling as to cause Hamilton, that well-spring of eloquence, to withdraw at once from the Association. Next year literary meetings...
...great deal of confusion caused by the tardiness with which some men entered their names; this delay on their part proceeded from a desire to know before-hand against what opponents they were to be pitted. We hope there will be nothing of this kind this year. Let a man decide well if he is in condition to enter the contest at all; and if he is, he should not be afraid to declare his willingness to match himself against any other man that would come under his same class...
...blame 'em if they are," said the stoutman. "If I was a young man, away off from home, with everybody turning the cold shoulder to me, I 'm afraid I 'd be dissipated. They seek the company which gives them the kindest reception. Now, judging from the specimens I 've seen, these young men, when they come here, are really fine fellows. As a rule, it is the best parents who send their sons to college, and it is their best sons that they send. Such sons will be more likely to do good than harm. I don't think...
They called their daughters, and the laughing girls took off their skates; and presently the party went out through the big doors which were being opened to let in the cold air. The stout man walked between the girls, making them both laugh, and laughing himself, a great, honest laugh; the elder man picked his way carefully along over the ice behind them...