Word: possessor
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...They have done much to create and foster the admiration for health and vigor without which college men, in our time, cannot exert much influence in the world, no matter how great their culture may be. The days are gone by when mere learning made an idol of the possessor. Culture in our time needs to have a man in good 'condition' behind it to command popular respect. The grandeur of the 'college consumptives,' as Dennis Kearney called them, is gone forever...
...management proceeds on a strictly cash basis, no paper being subscribed to until it can be paid for. The reading room has been in past years deservedly one of the most popular of the college institutions. The price of membership is two dollars, which includes a key, admitting the possessor to the reading room at all times during the year. The committee are Mr. Middleton, '85, ex officio, and Messrs. E. A. Hibbard, '84, and S. M. Hayes...
...bummer; what particular line he pursues can be easily discovered by all his furniture except his book-case; and as we are more particularly concerned with this, we leave his species for the present, and shall describe the only other man who can be the possessor of text-books and nothing else. This is a grind of the narrow-minded sort, who studies all the time on the lessons which are set him, but whose mind is chained down to the recitations that he goes to from day to day. He studies French or German perhaps, and takes the highest...
Though transmittenda may be intrinsically of little value, yet the associations connected with them make the possessor of one prize it highly. With what interest in my Freshman year did I sound the sheathing in my room to ascertain the possibility of one being secreted behind it; how expectantly did I wait for the unceremonious entrance of one through my window. Many students have grown to consider them as their Penates, and look with disgust upon the destroying hands of the Goths and Vandals, namely, the College Carpenter, and a dealer in second-hand goods, who never leaves anything...