Word: rather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will be interested to know that a freshman who has been in Cambridge a whole month now seems to think it the correct thing to gather unto himself a few kindred spirits and hold a delightful musicale at three o'clock in the morning. This happened Sunday night, or rather Monday morning last, in one of Hillton's dormitories. The performers rendered, among other things, "Fifteen Dollars in My Inside Pocket;" selections from the "Corsair" in duets, trios, etc., with piano accompaniment, as well as solos in falsetto-probably in blissful ignorance of the existence of such things as Parietal...
...proportion of those who are members of athletic clubs take an active part in the sports patronized by their respective clubs? Probably less than ten per cent. The cause of this want of interest in athletics is, doubtless, an increasing tendency to pursue sport as an end in itself rather than as a means...
...increasing the expense of training; 2d, by increasing the time devoted to practice; 3rd, by reducing the number of active competitors; 4th, by relying upon the natural resources rather than upon cultivated material; 5th, by depriving the non-athletic class of every incentive to physical exertion; 6th, by arousing the spirit of antagonism and fostering viciousness and brutality; 7th, by depriving them of their efficacy as a means to health...
...fore-arm. Before summing up the result of the arm of chest tests, the number of times that a person had lifted himself either way was multiplied into a tenth of his weight; the object being to credit each person with the number of foot pounds lifted, rather than to reckon the number of times the body was raised without respect to its weight. A tenth of the weight was taken in order to reduce the number of figures that would result from the multiplication. The girths of the head, chest, (natural and inflated), waist, thighs, uppers and fore-arms...
...careless play of Wesleyan rather than to good work on the part of Yale. The blocking was good, but there was altogether too much fumbling and high tackling. The make-up of the team has not as yet been fully decided upon, but will probably comprise the following men with perhaps one or two changes: Rushers, Wallac (left end), Gill, Cross, Corbin (centre), Woodruff, Rhodes, Pratt (right end); quarter-back, Beecher; half-backs, Morrison, Graves, '88's; back, Graves, '91. Of these Wallace, Gill, Corbin, Woodruff, Beecher and Morrison were on last year's team. Cross was substitute on last...