Word: rested
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...work of the Library is being rapidly pushed on. The architect seems to have endeavored to make the addition as little in keeping with the rest of the building as possible...
...found them easy, not to do them as well as we could, since the men (how we swelled up at the word!) who do their admittance papers the best are sure to be called up very often at the beginning of the Freshman year, and all the rest of the rigmarole which befits the newly fledged Sophomore when discoursing to those who are inferiors by a year...
...other half ran the meeting of the class now recognize, after painful experience, the fact that arguments are of no avail. The next step in the matter will be taken by those who support the officers elect, who will fill the vacant offices from their own ranks. The rest of the class - whether that be a majority or a minority is not now known - will then probably take some independent action...
...last the prospect of a spring vacation is good. The members of the Faculty have signed a document setting forth in appropriate terms their solemn belief that the best interests of the students in this institution of learning demand that they should have a week of rest somewhere between the first of January and the first of July. This belief is no hasty judgment. It is founded on the observations of several years; and the Faculty have the satisfaction of knowing that others, whose opportunities for forming an opinion have been equal, at least, to their own, came...
...base-ball players. Our men pass ball to some extent, take general exercise, and three times a week the pitcher practises pitching; but they can get no practice at all in batting during about five months. At Yale a certain part of the gymnasium is shut off from the rest of the building by a wire screen, and there the candidates for their Nine can take their places as they do on the field and get up their batting as well in doors...