Word: persons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sports. We are charitable, but we do not believe that six hundred men should be inconvenienced for six. The way to prevent this is so apparent that we are surprised that it has not yet been adopted. A limited number of tickets ought to be sold to one person. Is this method so obscure that it has not yet presented itself to those who manage affairs...
Prof. Paine conducted his selection in person, and received warm applause. Miss How proved to be possessed of a clear, strong voice, and sang very successfully. Mr. Henschel's composition was well-rendered, and received with much favor, and the instrumentation of the air by Berlioz was peculiarly impressive and suggestive. Schubert's unfinished symphony was an acceptable feature of the programme, and Beethoven's grand seventh symphony served as a fitting climax to this notable series of concerts...
...when the president is there." "Freshmen are to consider all the other classes as their seniors." "No freshman shall speak to a senior with his hat on; or have it on in a senior's chamber, or in his own if a senior be there." "When any person knocks at a freshman's door, except in studying time, he shall immediately open the door, without inquiring who is there." "The freshmen shall furnish bats, balls and foot-balls for the use of the students, to be kept at the battery...
...well known fact that if a person wishes to know anything about Yale's athletics, the Yale papers are the last place to go to for reliable information. If Yale has a good crew her papers take particular pains to make us believe that it is a very poor one. In fact, they are willing to do almost anything to put Harvard off her guard, and to inspire her with an overconfidence. Yale correspondents of the public press, however, usually express the true opinion of the students in regard to their athletic prospects with a great deal of accuracy. From...
There is an idea prevailing in the breast of many men who are fond of "fun" of a more boisterous kind, that a Cambridge policeman is a pitiless avenger of students' escapades, whose only desire is to lie around corners and get students into trouble. If such persons would call upon the veteran policeman whom we found in the station the other day when we were investigating the "small-pox scare," all of his fears of this monster would be dispelled, and he would find him a pleasant, rugged-faced man, glad to talk on subjects best suited...