Word: possession
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Princeton has in the last month been the lucky recipient of two donations, made for the purpose of encouraging music in the college and affording to those of the students who possess musical tastes an opportunity of enjoying excellent instruction. A lady, whose name is withheld, presented a considerable sum for the musical education of the college choir. Regular instruction in singing is to be given the choir by Mr. Schnecker, of New York, who is leader of a choir in a prominent New York church. The Princeton students, it is said, sadly mindful of the usual vocal efforts every...
...that they might on as fair and as equal terms cope with an examination designed to test their knowledge. Such men may, and may not, be right in their theory of examinations; but for ourselves we feel at liberty to differ with them inasmuch as we possess the required humility-and it does not take very much-to confess ourselves more ignorant than knowing; and, as long as we are so, we believe that we are better able to be, and more fairly would be, examined in our knowledge than in our ignorance. We, therefore, would have the purpose...
...indeed can afford to refuse their subscriptions. With the supremacy of foot ball, tennis will probably gain many supporters in the fall, and unless something were done to remedy the existing evil, complaints next year would be many and frequent. Another inducement is the hope that if we possess some excellent courts, the inter-collegiate tennis tournament will very probably be played here next year. On account of these various reasons, we hope the efforts of the association in obtaining subscriptions will be ably seconded by the college at large...
...that within the last decade or two the American College freshman has undergone an almost startling development, and has become a much more appreciable quantity in college life than ever before. To us old fellows the change is decidedly bewildering. In our day the freshman was currently believed to possess no rights which an upper classman was bound to respect. He was despised and rejected. He was the hewer of wood and drawer of water for all his sophomore neighbors. He was regarded as the legitimate and proper object of all manner of "cussing," in dignity and torture...
...though in all probability some of the old men will move farther down the boat, and the new men will have to occupy the seats vacated. There are several promising men among the candidates who offered themselves on Saturday, that is to say, they are strong well made, and possess the necessary weight. As to the most important point to be considered-namely their determination to win-it is fruitless, at this early stage, to make any predictions. Very few of the men have had any valuable coaching and they will have to be taught the science of rowing from...