Word: personation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crowding and inconveniencing of one another by those exercising. Of course it is impossible to help this, but still it can be in a great measure mitigated if everyone will only think a little less of his own comfort and have an eye to that of others. If each person on finishing a certain exercise will at once move off and give the next person a chance, everything will go right. At present there is a tendency on the part of some to monopolize certain pieces of apparatus for an excessively long time during the most crowded hours, while others...
...course a methodical person would keep a list of books lent with the borrower's name in line. But, alas ! what generous soul is methodical-the ready tendency to lend a book is proof that a man is ready for all risks. Nor will a well-kept list make our borrowers honest. If a man steal your book, you may recover it if you can prove the theft : but what is to be done with him who always-yes, always-is intending to return your precious volume? Your inquiries are met with ready promises of restoration ; he will bring...
...style of play which is now known in New Haven as the "scientific game." We trust that an apology may come from the News, it is the only reparation they can make, and that we may learn that the article in question was merely the work of some officious person who did not represent the real Yale feeling...
...different secretaries, and to consult with the ministers on questions not embraced by party lines. If belonging to the party in power, it is considered essential that he should cast his vote on all party questions, and in order to do this he must be present in person. In this he is assisted by what is called the "whip" document, sent to him every morning by the leaders of his party, who act as ministers, in which a programme of the business of the day is published, and from the heading of this paper, which is underscored either once, twice...
...these studies a set of carefully taught men from some other college, Our victories in rowing, thanks to Col. Bancroft's better coaching, proves the principle; our defeat in foot-ball, thanks partly to Mr. Camp's better coaching, proves the principle also. Moreover, coaching by a competent person does not mean merely better work of the same kind. It means a different kind of work, attention to details, a gradual improvement in the game, elimination of objectionable features. A score of instances could be mentioned in which superior head work, thoughtful training, such as a student cannot be expected...