Word: minding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...directly to the point, it is time the colleges began to have professional umpires. To this proposal the objection has been raised that there are no competent men of this stamp to be found. But there are such men, and well known ones at that. I have two in mind at present-Messrs. Edward Plummer and George Goldie, both of whom are far too well known to need any words of praise from me. One of these men I know to be perfectly competent. The other, if not so, only lacks a familiarity with the latest rules, which could...
...cannot as well spare these last few days from study; an hour examination compels them to loaf around Cambridge, thinking of home until they have satisfied their own consciences and the exactions of the instructors. We hope that all such instructors will bear this in mind and give those students who live at some distance from Cambridge the same chances as our Boston friends...
Until abuses are stopped there is no other way than continually to harp upon them, and it is with this in mind that we again call attention to the use of reserved books in the library. Far too often complaints are made that books supposed to be reserved are nowhere to be found. The only legitimate conclusion is that certain unscrupulous students have secreted them for their own personal benefit. No argument, of course, is needed to show the selfishness and injustice of such practices, and yet, after the matter has been repeatedly brought to the notice of the students...
...first thought in the minds of the opponents to such a proceeding is that it would simply prove a return to "professionals." Likely enough the students would learn their sports from the best teachers, as most people of sense do learn. There are few attainments of body or mind that have not to be taught the learner by persons more proficient than himself, and it places no mark of evil on the teacher that he be dubbed "professional" Englishmen have not suffered from their contact with professionals, without whom no cricket club of any importance in England exists. There...
...author seems to have caught the popular contagion among the novelists of the day and accordingly weaves a ??? thread through his story which gives it the appearance of a philosophical lecture rather than a novel. With a fair plot for a foundation he builds up a structure of mind imperishable, philosophy, astride counterpart, transcend ??al photography, ??? voyance, and ???notices, still the bewildered reader wonders whether he is still in his mortal body. Such a book may prove ??entertaining for those interested in psychical research, although the and ??? theories are too chimerical to be a ken seriously. It is not probable...