Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other respects they were admitted to be of sufficient merit to be enrolled among the august assembly which thus sets itself up to judge its fellow men. One of the rejected candidates was the gentleman graduated last June, who read a commencement part on the history of his race since...
...always supposed that one graduate of Harvard was as good as another, unless the contrary were proved, and in this case the contrary does not seem to have been proved. We had supposed, moreover, that such race prejudices as these had long ago died away, if indeed they ever existed in a great degree at Harvard, and that a body of Harvard graduates brought together for the express purpose of fostering and renewing the pleasant reminiscences of college life, would not take such a backward step as our representatives seem to have done. We do not wonder that the outside...
...recently appeared to an article which recently appeared in the News for the following account of the men who will probably obtain seats in the Yale boat. Thirteen men are now in training for the crew, including all but the of three men who rowed in last year's race. The three vacant slides are those of Scott, No. 7; parrott, No. 6 and peters, No. 5. It is improbable that any of these men will row. This leaves three places to be filled, though in all probability some of the old men will move farther down the boat...
...their ridiculously short gowns, in Germany with parti-colored caps, gives an idea of gaiety and life to the throng of busy passers-by. All is University, for the very townsfolk can do nothing but talk of this new rule, that escapade of the students, the coming boat race and the thousand and one occurrences that mark the daily life at any large college. Cambridge is no exception to the rule and may be looked upon as one large school, so general is the influence cast upon it by its many colleges. Few places are more ideal or better fitted...
...cultivated. "Another one, "Exegi monimentum are perennius," "I have eaten a monument, and c." Here is one from Livy, "Venus ei candida veste apparuit," "Venus appeared to him with a white vest on." Another from the historian, "P. Scipio equestri genere natus," "Publius Scipio was born at a horse race." Here are two renderings of apparently cognate origin: "Caesaris bonas leges," "The bony legs of Caesar." "Nune viridi membra sub arbuto stratus," "He having now stretched his green limbs under the arbutus." We could add to the catalogue, "Sed damnatio, quid confert," or, as a Hoosier Freshman rendered...