Word: renews
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class has been conspicuously placarded on the outer wall, in order that the graduates might know where their classmates rallied. These little gatherings have always been marked by a spirit of lively cordiality, which might be expected of college classmates coming together after years of separation to renew their friendships and recall the scenes and associations of their youth. There was no rowdyism or gross misconduct at these gatherings, and the effect of the punch has rarely been made manifest, except now and then, in the case of some newly-made Bachelor of Arts, who in that youthful exuberance incident...
...expected that those members will at once renew their connection with the society, as they will probably feel no immediate necessity for doing so, and sentiment has never had a large influence in the working of the society...
...summarize, we may say that the athletes devote too much time to the development of special powers, and sometimes carry their exercises to excess; that the sporting men rely upon their inheritance, physical and financial, and make no attempt to renew their capital; that the scholars, as a class, take too little exercise; and that the idlers take no exercise at all. When we consider the relative numbers in these several classes in all our colleges, it is safe to conclude that, of the whole number of students, not more than ten per cent. give any attention whatever to physical...
...attempt. It seems to us that no harm could possibly come from such an association, but, on the other hand, its members would derive a great deal of pleasure and profit from its meetings. The Acta has recently received calls from various parts of the country to renew its work in behalf of the association. In reply to these calls, it says : "To all those who ask our aid for this we beg leave to say that last year you let us whistle for what we wanted, and this year we shall transfer the toot to your hands. and shall...
...copies, we often find it extremely difficult to get a book which we want without waiting a long time for it. Probably few books taken from the library cannot easily be read in two weeks; and those which cannot be returned at the end of this time might be renewed, by giving in a new slip at the library. In this way books would not be kept out long after they were read, merely because men are too lazy to take them back. And if it were not necessary to present the book itself at the library, the inconvenience...