Word: mans
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...devised for a preliminary trial than merely having the Boylston Professor select twenty of the speakers to take part in the final contest. When we consider the fondness of judges for making an award which shall astonish everybody, we cannot help feeling that it is impossible for one single man to pick out twenty men, and say that they, and none but they, stand a chance for the five prizes that are offered. It seems to us that the only really fair way is to have the same judges for the two trials. If this is too much...
...many of the men seeming to be surprised into striking. Although we much admired the catcher's cool playing Wednesday, we doubt whether he has the requisite strength for the position; could not the catcher of the Beacons be induced to play? We also need at least one active man in the field who will cover a tolerable amount of ground and do well at the bat. Although the prospect for the future is much brighter than it was, we can safely say that unless the men in college who have ever played ball before come to the front...
...final paragraph shows the danger of continuing in speaking or writing after an effort has reached a natural conclusion, although it may be an error incident to inexperience; and in this case the omission of that paragraph would have saved the explicit declaration that "Burns was a man of talent and many excellences," in opposition to the general opinion that he was one of the greatest of the poetic geniuses of the eighteenth century...
...indeed. Fast men we have at all distances and at all gaits, and to the mile-runners and mile-walkers, especially, a capital chance is given of winning both fame and valuable cups, As may be recollected, this column, last fall, offered two cups of $25 each for any man who would beat 4 min. 50 sec. in a mile run, or 7 min. 40 sec. in a mile walk. These prizes will be given, as per agreement, at the Spring Games, provided that any one makes the required time. We shall, however, have a competent professional judge to watch...
...four or five men or which ten or twelve men only succeed in winning is to be materially diminished by the fact that fifty or sixty students win an entirely different honor, one of a much lower grade. It would be fully as reasonable to say that the one man who obtains a degree summa cum laude gets less honor because thirty men have a degree cum laude...