Word: possession
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...join or else forego the pleasure of witnessing the winter meetings. No member of the college can obtain access to the games without the membership ticket. The fee is small, and a ticket entitles a member to attend all future athletic meetings. It is something which every man must possess sooner or later during his college course. The hours of the secretary are posted in all the dormitory entries, so we expect to hear that every man in '90 has been made a member of the H. A. A. before the date of the first winter meeting...
...ready to repeat the up-hill work they accomplished a year ago, if it should be necessary. Stagg is getting a reputation far beyond the limits of college circles, and now is considered by many as the finest pitcher that any college has ever been fortunate enough to possess. The old trouble which has affected Yale very much in times gone by, that of getting "rattled," seems to have disappeared with most of the other faults. Harvard need never hope that the aspect of Holmes field on a June afternoon will be sufficient to demoralize completely every blue jersey that...
...stand on the threshold of knowledge, but who do not enter. The door lies open, but we have not the courage to advance and explore the unknown regions. The possibilities and chances of life are of two sorts. Those we strive after and desire to possess, and those to which we turn a deaf ear. The latter are continually knocking for admittance. They are love, truth, tenderness, purity, faith, fidelity, etc. Sometimes they gain admittance to a man's heart, but oftener are driven away by the all-absorbing cares and duties of every-day life. It is so even...
Last evening Prof. Frothingham delivered the third of the series of lectures on Assyrian Archaeology. The beginning of Babylonian art can be traced to the earliest historical period of Babylon, about 4000 B. C. From that period on we possess inscriptions for nearly every century from colossal temples and statues. Northern Babylonia was the first art centre, but in the third milennium Ur, in Southern Babylonia became the centre. There came a third period when the North was again the seat of artisti life, which gradually declined in vigor up to the capture of Babylon by the Assyrians. There...
...Harvard as well as at all other institutions of learning, there is a certain class of men who are known rather for their lack of brains than for any positive quality that they possess. The antics of these men are many and varied. Their nature is often displayed in their boisterous actions in the street, in recitation rooms and elsewhere, but at this period of the year, they seem to believe it their special province to do whatever they can to disturb the quiet and calm of the study-room, either forgetful that the examinations are approaching, or fiendishly taking...