Word: persons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...preliminary trial on Saturday. Of these, twenty, the same number as last year, were chosen, - eight out of fifteen Juniors, twelve out of twenty-one Seniors. As we said last year, it would seem fairer if the selection at the preliminary trial were made by more than one person; still it is of course impossible for every one to be satisfied in a matter of this kind. The speeches are limited to five minutes, so that the decisions may be expected by half past nine. The speaking is thought to be better than the average, and the pieces fresher...
...always heard that in the last few moments of a person's life, all the actions, good and bad, of his career rush to his memory. But with me it was not so. I tried to look back over my past life, to recall my boyhood, my college days, and the few preceding years; but instead of that I found myself attempting some jingling nurseryrhyme, and was vexed because there was one note which I could not catch. I thought of the axe, and tried to imagine the blood spurting out over it. But I discovered that I was endeavoring...
...recent Bicycle Tournament in New York has brought to light a rider of great promise in the person of Mr. Walter S. Clark, whose performances are really of a most exceptional nature. His first appearance was made on January 17, in the two-mile handicap, in which he was given 350 yards' start; and he won this with such ease that in the second heat of the same race he was put back to the 75-yard mark, but again won, as easily as before. The third heat found him at scratch, and this time he succeeded in making...
THERE has been such a storm of petty complaints on the subject of the bowling-alleys, that a word on the other side may not be out of place. In the first place, as to the "professor in bowling." It is evident to any unprejudiced mind that such a person is a help, not a hindrance. At Yale the men have been clamoring for exactly the same thing that the Echo so strongly protests against. They have had no one to superintend their alleys, and in consequence the balls are cracked and chipped, and the lower end of the alleys...
...held so far away as this, or at the Zoological Museum, due notice ought to be given if the instructors intend beforehand to be absent. But they are not content with letting us find out for ourselves that there is to be no recitation. They even employ a person to call the roll in their absence, and then we are made responsible for what we have not missed. The person thus employed, when questioned, said that he thought it was customary, and if not, that it ought to be. This inconvenience surely merits the attention of the Faculty...