Word: mending
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...writer declares that Harvard, who is responsible for having caused the present disorganization of athletic leagues, can alone do anything to mend matters. But nothing could be more improbable than that Harvard will apply for readmission into the old leagues. While it is true that the action of the Harvard mass meeting last year was hasty, angry and ill-considered, it is nevertheless a fact that it never could have taken place but for a long left dissatisfaction with leagues as they stand. The position of Harvard is seen in its true significance when it is remembered that...
...Childs, assistant superintendent of the Cambridge Cemetery, while driving from the city hall towards the cemetery with about $600 to pay off the men, was assaulted and shot by two men Saturday morning on Mt. Auburn street, who stopped him on the pretext of getting some rope to mend the harness of their team, which they claimed was broken. Mr. Child's condition was very critical Saturday night and he suffered great pain. His condition improved materially yesterday and strong hopes are entertained of his recovery. He passed a comfortable night last night. The assassins made off with the money...
...success. In short, the A. B., however high his rank in class, will find there is only one employment - that of teaching - in which his college training alone, without a corollary of special study, will enable him to earn his living. He cannot put up a prescription or mend a chair, preach a sermon or shoe a horse, pull a tooth or play a super's part, without learning how; and his text-books have not taught him how. Whatever business or trade he may go into, he will find a crowd of youths, often the sons of wealthy...
...freshmen are requested to take encouragement from the example of Mr. Carnochan last Saturday. "O, wad ye tak' a thought and mend...
...then the majesty of the law must be vindicated at all hazards! At a certain "university" we wot of, whenever the college papers are smitten with a reform fever and begin to cry out for a reform in college administration, the editors are promptly "summoned," and sternly warned to mend their evil ways. If this does not prove effective harsher measures are sometimes adopted; the terrors of suspension are sometimes brought into requisition...