Word: putting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University Football Association at Providence, R. L., held Thursday evening, W. B. Hopkins of Rochester, N.Y., was elected captain for next year. Hopkins has captained the Andover eleven for the past two years and has recently entered the class of '96. Candidates for next year's eleven will be put in training at once...
...wise measure. It comes as a rather hard blow to certain members of the Union, to all in fact who, in the opinion of the judges at the coming competitive debate, are not included in the list of the best twelve speakers. Yet if debating is to be put on a popular footing here in Harvard, the character of the debates must be such as to command respect. To do this the standard of the Union needed to be raised; not only that but the Union needed thorough reorganization. We would gladly see the whole university take an active interest...
...from the list of college events. The junior dinner is now the only remaining occasion on which the class in all the four years of college life meets together in anything like social relations. It is the one unifying force; the one opportunity before class day for men to put aside all the barriers which divide the class into endless cliques and to meet on a common level. While we may not regret on the whole that class feeling is not to-day of the same strength and character which was common to classes of fifty years ago, still there...
Such is the state of affairs at present and we hope that the Overseers will see the justice of our request that some action be taken to remedy it. The Board of Directors have asked permission to put in electric lights, a natural solution of the difficulty. The request is a reasonable one, particularly as it does not mean an increased expense either in board or for the University. As yet, however, no action has been taken. A prompt and favorable decision from the Board of Overseers would doubtless come as a welcome relief from a constantly increasing annoyance...
...candidates for the base ball nine at Princeton have stopped practising in the gymnasium, and have been put to work in the cage. Work will be continued here until the weather is suitable for outside work...