Word: refrain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...least, that the class races and the Boylston prize speaking come on the same day. Those who row in the race in the morning can hardly be expected to do themselves justice in the evening's contest, while the other candidates for the prize will have to refrain from cheering their crews. We fear that it is now too late to have the day fixed for the Boylston prize speaking changed, but if it is not some change should unquestionably be made...
...charming. It recounts the sad misfortunes of a man overtaken by asthma or some kindred disease, and the ready relief obtained by the use of this far-famed health restorer. The whole is classically melodious and the effect is very piquant and amusing, when the basses take up the refrain. The revival of this youthful composition adds another leaf to the laurels of our talented professor, and we should like to suggest to the Glee Club the advisability of producing it at their spring concert...
Before the beginning of the meeting President Lowell made a short speech requesting the audience to refrain from hissing and showing signs of partiality...
...that such doggerel has no place outside of a valentine, or, perhaps, a college paper," writes a correspondent of a Boston paper of the poem sent to the Harvard Club of New York by W. W. Story, the artist. The first verse of the song, with the refrain, by the way, is as follows...
...cannot refrain from a feeling of sympathy with the views of our Princeton correspondent of last Saturday, upon the subject of Yale's services to foot-ball. Yale has undoubtedly done much to develope the science of the game, and for what she has done in this way she deserves all praise. But she has also done the game much injury, as our correspondent says, by making it unnecessarily rough and out of accord with the traditions and proper spirit of college sports. We know very well with what derisive jeers this opinion will be received at Yale...