Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...team in training them for the running and standing high jump and putting the shot. But the boxing, which has always been a special feature of the games, will be more than interesting from the fact that so many prominent athletes of the college have been giving a good share of their spare time for the past two months in getting ready for the events...
Yesterday's Globe has an interesting article containing reminiscences of old Yale and Harvard oarsmen. Bob Cook, Wilbur Bacon and William Blaikie all come in for a fair share of the discussion. In speaking of Cook the writer relates a conversation wherein he said...
...hoped that his hearers would live to seethe liquor traffic declared an outlaw thoughout the civilized world. The temperance movement takes root easily in the Anglo-Saxon nature. For the love of moral purity inherent in it awakens a great sensibility to moral questions, and we should do our share to further the cause. The lecturer then discussed the educational and political aspect of the prohibition movement. Life insurance companies take cognizance of a man's habits in drink. The total abstainer obtains better terms than the moderate drinker. The question of total abstinence is answered, and there...
...will be seen from the report of the treasurer of the boat club that the freshman class has thus far subscribed the large sum of fifty-eight dollars for the support of the University Crew. We naturally hoped that Ninety would do her share in support of the university teams; but we hardly looked for such unparalleled generosity as this. Only a part of the class has been canvassed, and yet fifty-eight dollars have been collected. In our enthusiasm we wildly dream that two dollars more may be scraped together, and the magnificent total of sixty dollars reached. Ninety...
...sons from eighty eight will reflect as much credit on the family name as their brothers from preceeding classes have done in the past. But there is one complaint which Dame Advocate makes, and very justly too. She tells us that eighty-nine has failed in doing its share of the work which must be done. In other words, to put the disagreeable fact in plain English, the present sophomore class is either singularly devoid of literary ability, or else is a model class for laziness...