Word: rather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...practice as much as possible in the gymnasium. The cage has not been finished yet and it seems doubtful at present whether it will be ready for use for some time, though it was expected that practice could begin there immediately upon the re opening of college. A rather erroneous opinion of Princeton's prospects for a nine seem to have become current, and one much too favorable to her. There is good material here and Capt. Wagenhurst will do all in his power to develop a first-class nine, but now that the men have gotten down to work...
...Bric a-Brac, which, owing to some trouble with the printers, is rather late this year, is promised this week, and the advance sheets are very handsome and give promise of a handsomer book than any of its predecessors. The price has been raised and the committee promise that the additional attractions of the book will more than repay for the increase in cost...
...eighth number of this volume of the Advocate opens with a number of rather severe but well-taken editorials on the management of our athletic organizations and of the boat club especially. There is a great deal of truth in the statement that the failure of men to attend the meetings at which the officers are elected throws a large share of the responsibility of whatever mismanagement there may be on their own shoulders. The position that the Advocate takes in regard to the Glee Club is one that all of us would like to see adopted by the faculty...
...first requisite for success is a habit of self-discipline. Boys, or rather young men, of eighteen, who have never been thrown on their own resources, whose hours have been mapped out for them, whose coming and going has been regulated by authority, whose clothes have been bought, whose books and companions have been chosen, or who have been in the seclusion of careful boarding-schools, are suddenly thrown into freedom, entirely unprotected, can choose everything from companions to studies and at the same time have to meet temptations new in kind and in degree. Having had no command...
...deserving we have been of praise, however plucky and successful our crews have been, we have certainly not received just recognition of it since the palmy days when Yale and Harvard withdrew from the association with the excuse that "they had no show where Cornell rowed, and they would rather row by themselves." And they have been rowing by themselves, and the attention and interest of the world has gone with them and remained centred upon them, for Cornell has had no rivals worthy of her mettle. But things were allowed to take their course until now the desired...