Word: manned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...call his death an untimely one, and yet, is it not as true today as it was nineteen hundred years ago, in the time of Him whose birthday we have just celebrated, that it is the quality of a man's life and not the quantity which is the only true test of earthly life? It seems to me, as I think of some of those sons of Harvard whose death in recent years we regret so much, Greenhalge and Russell, Phillips Brooks, and Charles Eliot of my own class, and of football fame our friend Newell, William H. Manning...
...readers of our college periodicals. As the writer says, why is it that men insist on choosing subjects with which they have no real sympathy? The result is occasionally creditable it is true, but lacks individuality and a lacquered effect is only too common. At intervals we find a man writing of truly personal experience and with sympathy; his theme may be well worn, but the well telling of it makes an old story new, and after all the best things in literature are those written by men who felt deeply, keenly what they wrote...
BOXING.- Do you want to take boxing lessons? If so there is no better man than Wm. S. Gordon, who has been appointed instructor at the Gymnasium. Lessons at Gymnasium or at rooms. Wm. S. Gordon, 35 Boylston street, Cambridge...
During the last eight years 27 Yale men, 23 Princeton, 22 Harvard, 15 University of Pennsylvania and one Cornell man have been chosen on the all-American elevens...
BOXING.- Do you want to take boxing lessons? If so there is no better man than Wm. S. Gordon, who has been appointed instructor at the Gymnasium. Lessons at Gymnasium or at rooms. Wm. S. Gordon, 35 Boylston street, Cambridge...