Word: minds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Holyoke and looks out on the well which adorns that classic building. Sitting down before his cosy fire, listening to his pleasant chat, we think, "lo, how charming is a college life; so quiet, so peaceful, so free from care." This thought has hardly passed through our minds, when a horrid noise re-echoes from the wall, rolling from story to story with wild clamor; at last it dies away, and when silence reigns again we gasp, with dismay, "What on earth was that?" "That," says Snodkins, taking his cigarette from his lips, and blowing fragrant little rings of smoke...
...unfavorable weather with which our foot ball teams are now favored brings to mind the fall of '82, when we met with a similar hindrance from a somewhat too previous snow storm. Many a junior recalls with pride the alacrity with which be, then a mere freshman, stepped forward and lent his and to the good work of relieving Holmes Field of its unwelcome coverlet. Many a junior, too, will remember the sudden increase in alacrity with which he surrendered his shovel to some new comer and silently became absent from the cold field after a mauvaise quarts' hear...
...attention of Parliament to any crying evil. Now we do not wish to make comparisons any more odious than necessary, but we cannot help feeling that there is quite a parallel case near at hand; and those of us who are not over-gifted with the calm and tranquil mind, now and then regret the extinction of certain good old college customs, that have in times past, constrained the attention of our college Parliament in a similiar manner...
...weak point and with improvement in this respect he will play right field. He is a very fast runner and in the games played has proved himself the best base runner. Winslow has signified his intention of not playing this year ; we trust that he will change his mind, and again fill his old position in the box, where he did such good work last year. With Winslow and Nichols for pitchers, and Allen behind the bat, Harvard will be able to present a strong battery. We trust that the executive committee will decide to put the nine in strict...
...every other man in the team was and should be. And this seems to me, to be directly due to the fact that he had been told by the Captain, or whoever acted as coach, what to do in any given case. This idea was thoroughly confirmed in my mind, on the evening following, when I was told that such was truly the state of the case. To quote in the words of my informer, "Each rusher was told to back up' some other individual rusher, and if he was not there, he was 'cussed.'" Now I do not advocate...