Word: proof
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...favored with a furnace as well as the inhabitants of those other equally modern buildings, Holyoke and Matthews? The frigid air penetrates our walls as well as our doors and windows, and even our grates, which are acknowledged to be of a peculiar make, are not proof against this combined attack of the wintry blast. To leave open our outer doors is an utter impossibility, that is, if we object at all to having our feet frozen; and as we are forced to keep our portals closed in self-defence, we are fast gaining the unenviable reputation of "sporting" constantly...
...report calls attention to various needs of the University, among which is "a new hall to contain lecture-rooms for the College." "At least sixteen lecture-rooms," it is stated, "are imperatively demanded." Further the University needs a fire-proof building for the Divinity School Library, "a new gymnasium of three times the capacity of the present building," and apparatus and collections for the Fine Arts Department. The President, moreover, calls for three new professorships, namely, a professorship of Jurisprudence, a professorship of ecclesiastical history, and a professorship of hygiene...
...wisdom of our action in withdrawing from the Rowing Association of American Colleges was proved conclusively, if any proof was needed, by the course pursued in the late Convention of the Association. Three colleges - Cornell, Columbia, and Princeton - were represented, and the most important action taken was a resolution to row hereafter in four-oared instead of six-oared shells. The fear that this backward step would be taken was one of our strongest reasons for leaving the Association, and now we see that our apprehension was no idle fancy. We shall have next summer three separate intercollegiate contests...
...Another proof to the Advocate of the existence of a coalition between the non-society and the Pi Eta, is the fact that the Pi Eta indorsed the non-society candidates. Remembering the refusal of the non-society to indorse the Pi Eta candidates, I doubt the convincing effect of this evidence, especially when one is informed that not only did the Pi Eta indorse the non-society candidates, but also the Signet candidates. From which latter circumstance it might, with equal propriety, be inferred that there was a coalition between the Pi Eta and the Signet...
...perfectly justifiable in doing), denounce their proceeding as "bargaining"; stigmatize the majority, when your candidates are defeated, as a "coalition"; loudly declare that you stand immovably on the principle of "intrinsic fitness" (yourselves being the judges as to where the same resides); and, as a final and convincing proof of your independent and manly spirit, secede and have nothing to do with your unappreciative class...