Word: odd
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some time it has been whispered about among the athletic men of the university that a remarkably stimulant had been discovered by a certain natural history student here. All the old Cornellians have heard of Moses, '73. He was a remarkable individual, very brilliant in some ways, but odd, in everything. Many a strange story is still told about him, and his experiments in chemistry, perhaps we should say alchemy, have been repeated from student to student, year after year...
...judgment is passed upon it. The writer of to-day's communication really proves nothing concerning the base-ball men. He simply denies the charge, declaring that documents were brought to Boston to disprove it. As to the foot-ball matter, if there was no game arranged, it seems odd that the Harvard foot-ball men should not have set the matter aright before this, knowing, as they must, that such was the case...
...have been again requested by the gentlemen who are collecting subscriptions for cups to be presented to last year's freshman nine, to say that ninety out of the one hundred and twenty odd dollars subscribed up to date have been collected, and to urge upon the sophomores to come forward and pay up the remainder as soon as possible. If the whole amount subscribed is paid, it will enable the management to procure very handsome cups which will serve as substantial memorials of the gallant acts of Eighty-nine. We trust that this last appeal may have its effect...
...club would embrace all classes. It would tend to break up fractions and cliques. It would bring together congenial men, who might not otherwise become acquainted. By the facilities which it would offer in the way of interesting magazines and papers, it would attract a great many men at odd hours in the day. The club rooms would be an excellent place in which to pass the time between recitations, a purpose which the library now meets very imperfectly. Visiting teams and distinguished lecturers to the college could be entertained there by their friends, and an opportunity would in that...
...seems extremely probable that in the near future the good taste of the college will rebel against dressing two hundred odd students as no other mortals but hotel waiters are dressed. This being so, what better time than the present year to institute the reform...