Word: play
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Committee. That they did n't stand a sure chance of winning ought not to be any cause for not challenging, but there are other reasons. Cornell, taking into account the present relations between the colleges, might consider it a sort of apology for what she calls not fair play, but we have no apology to make, since the Executive Committee have done that already. Then it has been rumored that ex-Captain Bancroft said that if he had to row last year's Cornell crew, be should require his whole last year's 'Varsity crew, and surely...
WITHOUT doubt marks play altogether too important a part in the ideals of many students; but the fault is as much that of the Faculty as that of the students. It is to be regretted that the present condition of the University will not permit the abolition of all systems of definite marks. But though such a reform cannot be accomplished for many years to come, the Faculty might give some relief, or at least boldly face the evil. It is well known throughout the college that the two deaths of last year were the result of reckless overwork...
...precision, estimating the work done as the hydrometer measures the alcohol in spirits, at the same time discovering and exposing all the ingenious devices by which examination-papers have been made easy. Every one will be truly gauged according to his actual merit by this unerring machine, which will play havoc with those cunning seekers after college-rank whose sole claim to distinction is the idea entertained by their instructors that they are trying hard. Amiable rank-smiths, there is to be no more of this sort of scholastic reputation-building...
ALMOST every one, in reading Macaulay, must have been struck by the numerous allusions to an imaginary school-boy, who is called upon to refresh the memory of the reader upon subjects as widely different as the date of a king of England, the construction of a Greek play, or the theory of government. I have always had a great reverence for this imaginary personage, whom I think as badly treated as was the famous Mr. Blank, mentioned in the Spectator...
...York, we should have mentioned the name of Mr. Nathaniel Curtis in connection with Mr. Sherwood's. The latter, it is true, composed a number of the songs, and contributed to the success of the performance by his acting; but the credit of having originated the undertaking, altered the play, and selected the company, belongs to Mr. Curtis. The omission was accidental, as it is well known in Cambridge that Mr. Curtis, though not occupying a prominent position at rehearsals, was the heart and soul of the enterprise...