Word: saws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sort of barracks, wears a uniform, counts only as a unit in a mass who are governed in a semi-military fashion, and gets little or no separate attention from his masters. Outside the college walls no moral restraint is put upon him at all. If a professor saw him smoking or drinking spirits in a cafe on Sunday while he was out on leave no notice would be taken of the fact, nor would a professor or usher think of cross-questioning him on his return from the holidays as to what he had been doing, what books...
...number of Yale students to inspect the mills. Free transportation and a free lunch induced upwards of two hundred and fifty students to accept the invitation. The excursion was a grand success. The trip was a pleasant one, and the Yale students were much pleased with what they saw. The mills alone were well worth the journey, surrounded as they were by every evidence of happiness and prosperity. The delegation of students left much impressed with the excellent management and the generous courtesy of the Willimantic Company. The Yale News devoted a page of its issue to a glowing description...
...hoped that a large number of men will be able to go to Providence tomorrow to support the nine in their game with Brown. Those who saw the second game with Brown last year are aware how greatly the result of the game was affected by the enthusiastic cheers of the two hundred Harvard men who were present. The game tomorrow will be one of special difficulty, and the support of the college is even more necessary than it was last year. The nine has had many reverses to contend against this year. Let us hope that the hard luck...
...dinner of the Harvard Club," the writer continues, "the genuine college spirit shone out. Harvard was really there. One saw it, sensed it, distinguished the flavor of it. Some seventy of the alumni were present, besides a few invited guests. They were mostly of the younger generation, but not all. All, however, had the glow and freshness of the student's life still bright upon them. A finer company of gentlemen could probably not be found anywhere in the world. A company of brighter, fresher and purer faces we never saw, and shall probably never see. There were present, direct...
...upper class men who saw the close race in the fall of '81, cannot fail to recollect the interest the event aroused. It has been a matter of frequent comment that more attention is not paid to rowing by the students at large. At present all the interest is centered on the university and class crews, and but few men who are not candidates for these crews ever go on the water. In the English universities boating is one of the most popular amusements, and it is the general popularity of the sport that makes it valuable. The revival...