Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University is the Weld Boat Club. It affords excellent outdoor exercise to men who are not able to play on any of the regular athletic teams. It furnishes a boat house and a very complete equipment of light, easy rowing boats and canoes. The house and its outfit was presented to the University by Mr. Weld with the belief that it would soon become, self-supporting. The gift cost Mr. Weld twenty thousand dollars, but he felt that it was worth it, as it would be a great addition to the athletic facilities of the University, and would give students...
Every man in '95 ought to enter the Tree enclosure dressed in a football suit, or in some similarly appropriate outfit, whether he intends to go into the fight or not. He owes at least so much to himself, to his class and to Harvard. There is nothing more unique or more picturesque in American college life than the struggle for the flowers on Class Day. Harvard men everywhere are proud of it and they like to see the old traditions honored each year by the seniors. It is not a personal fight and there is no danger to limb...
...Indeed, an additional argument for our movement is the fact that facilities at present existing in New England for the collegiate education of women are insufficient. With the outfit asked for, Brown University will offer women better educational opportunities than are now open to them anywhere in New England, and may expect many women students from neighboring states...
...oblivion, that imperishable incentive to curiosity and interest that belongs to all original minds. His finest utterances do not merely nestle in the ear by virtue of their music, but in the soul and life, by virtue of their meaning. One would be slow to say that his general outfit as poet was so complete as that of Dryden, but that he habitually dwelt in a diviner air, and alone of modern poets renewed and justifled the earlier faith that made poet and prophet interchangeable terms. Surely he was not an artist in the strictest sense of the word; neither...
...that more measurements be taken at once, to sent to the manufacturers, or else the committee cannot assure the members of the class that the gowns will be ready when wanted. No one will be allowed to take part in the class exercises who is not provided with an outfit and hence the committee again urges those who have not been measured to attend to the matter at once...