Word: refrain
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...year will be held this afternoon at 5 o'clock in Appleton Chapel and will be conducted by the Rev. Professor E. C. Moore, D.D., of Cambridge, preacher to the University. The musical programme will be as follows: "Almighty God," Schubert; "He forgiveth all thy sins," Garrett; "Refrain thy voice," from the oratorio "The Light of the World," Sullivan. The soloist will be Mr. George J. Parker...
...hear the refrain...
...candidate for office. They insist that they are merely claiming their rights, and cannot understand the attitude of men with equally strong claims who are content to sit by and receive what they deserve. We do not intend to urge men who have been treated with obvious unfairness to refrain mistakes. But if every malcontent would weight his claims thoughtfully before presenting them, and act upon the promptings of his sense of justice, he would save the time of the persecuted officer, as well as his own self-respect...
...joke--at any rate that is the most charitable explanation of unfair tactics which have frequently appeared among the players as well as the spectators. This year the captains are doing their best to insure fair contests, but they will not succeed unless the supporters of the teams refrain from taking a hand in the game. The winners of the series are awarded numerals--a distinction which should carry sufficient weight to check any sympathetic playing by the crowd...
...certainly unreasonable to oblige him in turn to disturb all the students of those two dormitories by a noise which has no object and no excuse. Most men in College do the bulk of their work not in the morning early, but in the evening late, and most Seniors refrain from 8 o'clock recitations, and have therefore no need and no inclination to be awakened at 7. Moreover, in exceptional cases, alarm-clocks are used, and prove quite efficient. This custom, then, which served a purpose a few generations ago, and which has, in modern times, out-grown...