Word: reminders
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...certainly time that measures were taken to correct this nuisance. The guilty parties are mostly confined to the genus "mucker" who have a most wonderful and varied command of the vocal organs. Indeed some of the sounds that issue forth from the lips of these specimens are astounding and remind one of a large and well assorted circus menagerie or of a steam calliope. It is exceedingly unpleasant when a man is grinding for examinations or puzzling over the higher electives, to be interrupted by piercing screams or intermittent warblings from unknown parts of the yard. We do not venture...
...shop or up a lane, and he had not survived the creation of the first batch of married fellows. How he had got into this thoroughly wrong paradise was a mystery which he made no attempt to explain. "A nice place this, eh?" he said to me; "nice gardens; remind me of Magdalen a good deal. It seems, however, to be decidedly rather gay just now, don't you think so? Commemoration week, perhaps, a great many young ladies up, certainly; a good deal of cup drunk in the gardens, too, I always did prefer to go down in Commemoration...
...usual January thaws from which we suffer every winter remind us, much more forcibly than the heavy snow, of the need of a few more plank walks in the yard. It is at just this season of the year when the library is most in use. The pleasant weather and a nine stretch of brick or slate walks lures the unwary student on his way to the library into the delusion that walking is just as good elsewhere as at his own door. Taking this easy-going thoughtless view of the case, he leaves his rubbers in his room...
...piece of apparatus more than two or three minutes,-unless we except the chest weights, and in the intervals of exercise one should be careful not to interfere with others. Romping of any Kind should be discountenanced, which goes without saying, and it is apparently necessary for us to remind many to shut after them the doors between the main hall and the dressing rooms. But it is unnecessary to particularize further. A little regard on the part of each one for the rights of others coupled with a free use of courtesy will work the needed reform...
...that are returned by the half-backs on the opposing side are rarely caught, on account of the idea that, even if they are not caught, ample time is given by the college team, for the university half-backs to pick up and return the ball, but we would remind the halfbacks that Princeton men are proverbial for the way in which they follow after the ball, and such an error would be more fatal than is perhaps imagined in an important game. The reshers block fairly well, but have grown somewhat careless, and have allowed some of the college...