Word: robs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...slaves to their scholarships. Surely under the present state of things, students are not blamable for their slavery. However, were the system of marking more just, more universally definite and stable, then the student needing a scholarship need not be forced to consider whether this or that instructor would rob him of, or assist him to the needed money...
...wide a choice, exercise great discretion. The character of the water in which he proposes to cruise and his own physical strength are to be taken into consideration. Should the canoe be desired for use along the seaboard or on large lakes, a sailing canoe of the Nautilus or Rob Roy types, a good sea-boat and one easy to manage, will not aurally be selected. These canoes are somewhat heavy and are not easy to transport on land as it is not supposed that there will be much need of that kind of work. On the contrary...
Much excitement was caused in Baltimore a few days ago by the discovery of an attempt by students of the University of Maryland to rob a grave in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. The attempt was discovered by the cemetery watchmen about midnight and the students were chased some distance, but made good their escape. No arrests have yet been made...
...hear something of the sentiment at Princeton concerning Yale's methods of playing foot-ball. The Courant in its last number seems to claim that Yale, instead of having done incalculable injury to the manly sport, has "almost entirely developed" "the present science of play." Such statements certainly rob Princeton as well as Harvard of due praise. Yale has done the game quite as much harm as she boasts she has done it good. She has made it a dangerous game; she, chiefly, has made umpires as well as referees necessary, and she has caused the public, in great part...
...Graves prize essays for the senior class this year are : "The American Judiciary and its Dangers," "The Imperfections of the Jury System," "Modern Inventions as Related to Human Happiness," "The Influence of Physical Conditions on Moral Character," "Athens in the Time of Pericles," "The University of Oxford," "Author of 'Rob and His Friends,' " "John Quincy Adams," "Partisan History," "Howells as a Critic of American Life," "The Unrest of the Age as Expressed in its Poetry...