Word: primed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interest in the tug-of-war between '85 and '86 is daily increasing. Both teams are in prime condition, and will make a hard struggle for the championship...
...James; Assistant-professor Croswell and Mr. Wendell: Carpenter, Halbert, Goodale and W. B Noble, for '85; Claflin, Huddleston, Merriam and R. D. Smith for '86 ; H . L . Clark, F. S. Coolidge, Herron, and H . E. Peabody, for '87, and Garrison, Lund, Pierce, and E. B. Thayer for '88 . The prime question for which the meeting was called , a definite plan of representation for permanent conferences , was not decided , although the men talked for nearly two hours , and it was thought best not to publish any of the debate on that subject until after the adjourned meeting , when something more definite...
...much for the plan in detail. There may be objections to it, but there are many evident advantages. In the first place that which is of prime importance, it would give a representative body of students, comprising as it would much of the athletic skill, the literary ability, and the scholarship of the college. The students would, directly or indirectly, take part in the election of nearly all the delegates. Secondly, the classes would be represented according to their seniority; for the offices of the athletic organizations and the positions on the several papers are mostly held by upper-class...
...would seem, from the recently printed words of President Robinson of Brown University, that the idea that a man of prime physical development must necessarily be lacking in strength of intellect has not yet been entirely abandoned. We had thought that this fallacy had been long ago exploded, but when a man occupying so prominent a position as does President Robinson, deliberately states it as his conviction that the students who hold positions on the various athletic teams are wont to make their studies secondary to their work in the field, we feel that so sweeping a statement ought...
...related that the last time Mr. Gladstone went to Nice to recuperate, a friend found him in the garden one day writing page after page of what seemed to be an important public dispatch. He apologized for the interruption. "Not at all," said the prime minister; "I am only writing in reply to an Eton boy who wrote to me on a point in Homer." He confessed that he did not know his questioner; but it was a pleasure for an old Etonian to spend his holiday in satisfying the desire for knowledge...