Word: sapping
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...which is shirked by the high schools. When we have made all other reforms, if the cost of living demands it, we shall, as heretofore, increase the salaries of these instructors. But we cannot afford bribes to keep their noses to useless grindstones. We shall still their whines and sap their shoddy patronage of puppy yellow journals, but let it be clearly understood we appreciate that they are incapable of sacrifice...
...Committee is sending out a letter to every club suggesting that all meetings be arranged for Tuesday evenings. Though some clubs will probably find this impossible, if it can be put into general effect it will serve two ends: First, club meetings will not sap the audiences from lectures, concerts and the like; and second, undergraduates will find it easier to keep straight their engagements. Conflicts among the clubs can be avoided by the use of different. Tuesday nights during the month. For further information in regard to the proposed plan, see the Chairman of the Committee on Organizations...
...London, it is evident that "rattling tactics" have not produced the effect desired at New Haven. Not only Harvard men, but neutrals who belong to neither university, and a saving remnant of Yale men themselves, deprecate a practice which mars the pleasure of witnessing athletic contest. Verbum sap. SPORTIOUS ANTIQUUS. (Reported from Alumni Bulletin
...PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM. "Experiments on Sap Flow and Sap Presser." Dr. H. C. Hayes. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...
...rules laid down in the recent circular contain, we think that the students are in duty bound to conform. As to the upper-classmen, we have no doubt that the request will be heeded. It may be that we are "counting our chickens" too early, but the verbum sap. had better be given at a venture than given too late...