Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...light, plucky, and regarded a fair man. H. F. Noyes, '89, has made a good record on the Andover nine, of which he was captain, is a good fielder and thrower. He will try for short stop; F. L. Sperry, special student, another Western Reserve man, will try for right field or short stop; J. C. Dann, '89, gives promise as a pitcher, J. O. Heyworth, '88, pitcher of his class nine, is working for a similar place on the university; A. C. Lux, '88, by all odds the most promising catcher in college, has been compelled to leave...
...student think of anything but athletics seem to care more for his harm than for his good. Many say that in themselves athletics are all very well, but why so much attention and enthusiasm? Without the attention and the enthusiasm, there could hardly be any athletics. The student does right in giving some thought and interest to athletics. The wrong is where he gives no thought and interest to more important matters, - a mistake which very few men even approach to making. The supposition that Harvard and Yale, for example, cannot meet each other in athletic contest...
...post marked somewhere in Florida, and bearing on its face in large letters "Sample of Florida Mistletoe." Being ignorant of the purposes for which this spring of green leaves could be designed, we searched diligently for directions, and found them concisely stated in two paragraphs headed. "He has a right to kiss her," and "The custom of kissing still exists." When the full meaning dawned upon us a heartfelt sigh of relief ascended to Heaven. For years, in common with other members of the journalistic profession, the editors of the CRIMSON have been troubled with extreme bashfulness! Here at last...
...that the overseers are chosen by the alumni. It may be merely a coincidence, but it is a striking one, that the 'long period of lethargy' at Harvard, to which your correspondent alludes, closed at about the time when the State of Massachusetts granted to the graduates the right to elect the overseers...
...down, I remember a grind who was down once. He was making a call. His amorous eye glared from behind its glassy shield like a cat's eye in the dark. The conversation had flagged. Suddenly he brightened up. "Miss S - S - can you tell me the number of right angles in a triangle?" A pause. "Why it depends on the size of the triangle." That idea had never struck him before, and he succumbed. To this day he mutters, as he walks, over and over again, "it depends on the size...