Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...then, that we should row with the champion college crew, and, in case we are successful, with other colleges that are willing to race in eights. On the other hand, it is neither fair nor reasonable that we should travel all over the Western and Middle States for the sake of meeting a rival. New London is the place for these races, not Owasco Lake nor Harlem River. If Columbia and Cornell are determined to row over their favorite courses, the College will certainly decline accepting such conditions, which would seriously interfere with the Putney regatta. It is too early...
...College is too poor to go to this expense, I would respectfully suggest that the Faculty furnish conveyances to and fro. The cost need not be large, and the benefit conferred would be great, especially on a rainy day, or when the snow is several feet deep. For the sake of myself and the others who take the course, I hope the Faculty will attend to this matter...
...sweet sorrow for her own dear sake...
...Heaven's sake, who is then...
...this move falls through, either owing to the inertness of the H. A. A. or the unwillingness of the fellows to train, then athletics are indeed in a desperate way, and had better be dropped altogether rather than straggle on as they do. Let us then, for our own sake, either make a vigorous effort to rouse ourselves, and encourage true manly sports, or let us give up entirely, and retire to our cigarettes, lawn-tennis, and our pitiful indifference to every earthly thing but our own personal comforts and pleasures...