Word: manners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Amherst for a mock national convention to be held February 20th. Three hundred or more men are to be present as delegates from the different States, and the affair will be carried on as much like the national conventions as possible. College Hall will be decorated in a fitting manner, and the occasion will doubtless be one of great enthusiasm. The doorkeepers, pages, telegraph operators and presiding officers are to be chosen from the college at large. The names of four candidates-Blaine, Sherman, Hawley and Lincoln-will be brought before the convention...
...candidates are divided into squads of four men, each of which has regular hours appointed for practicing hand ball in the cage. Two and perhaps three batteries will soon be in daily practice. After the mid-years a radical change will be made in the manner of training; all the running will be out-of-doors, and an entirely new, and we consider excellent, departure will be made. All who present themselves as candidates for the nine will be obliged to attend morning prayers at chapel...
...halls to prepare for the fray. At the east end stood a couple of sophs gazing fondly upon their thirty-dollar darling, which was a striking illustration of the beautiful and useful combined in one, needing only the bowl-man held in its gentle embrace, after the manner of the acorn, to make the picture complete; at the other end stood the freshmen, in weighty council of war; now they come on with a rush and a shout. Out through the door the mass is squeezed, like a bed-sheet through a clothes-wringer, and down the campus they slide...
Resolved, That the President and Executive Committee be authorized to announce in such manner as they may see fit, that any young man educated in Colorado and desiring to go to college and needing pecuniary aid, will be assisted by the Colorado Yale Association to the extent of $200 per year for the four years' course if he chooses to go to Yale University...
...sent who combine common sense with intense earnestness it makes no difference whether they are speakers or not. The object of the deputation work is not exhortation or the discussion of theological problems, but simply to provide a means of stating personal experiences in a familiar manner. Athletic men have taken hold earnestly-a fact which has set students thinking, for they know that here, certainly, there can be no cant or hypocrisy