Word: personally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...entered into calculations of many who have discussed the question. We cannot but think that this would be the most fortunate termination of the difficulty possible. In that case, the college would have followed the established custom and at the same time no injury to the feelings of any person would have resulted. Such an action on the part of the governor would do a great deel to satisfy all parties...
...genial, social aspect about lawn tennis that has, no doubt, largely ministered to the growth of its popularity. It possesses no mysteries like the ancient and classic game whose name it has borrowed, and whose champions look down upon the intruder as rather a sorry sort of parvenu. A person who cannot be made to understand that the advance at a bound from "fifteen" to "thirty" is a perfectly natural numerical progression, that thirty is a matter of course leaps at once to forty, and that "deuce" is the parent of "vantage," must be singularly obtuse...
...Association of Amateur Athletes of America will be held in New York, Saturday, June 2d. The programme, of the meeting has recently been published, of which the following is a synopsis. Entries are invited from college athletes. The following definition of an amateur is given: "An amateur is any person who has never competed in an open competition, or for a stake, or for public money, or for gate money, or under a false name; or with a professional for a prize, or where gate money is charged; nor has ever, at any period of his life, taught or pursued...
...what ought to be considered a very small membership, but it is worth nothing that it exists, and recently had a public meeting at which ex-Governor Long and Rev. E. E. Hale, both alumni of Harvard, made rousing addresses. The use of wine at their tables by influential person in the University does not however help matters much. But one is glad to recognize some earnest advocates of total abstinence in the faculty...
...taken sick with contagious disease he is immediately taken to this hospital. To convey him there the college possesses a closed sedan chair, which is taken directly into the student's room and then carried quickly across the field and into the ward of the hospital. The ill person is then at liberty to send for his own physician and nurses - there being no special college physician - and, if desired, his parents are at liberty to use the hospital as their own house. In the two cases of sickness which have occurred this year the hospital was so used...