Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...encounter (except boating) with Yale, for want of the same discipline against first-rate antagonists; and regular defeat means discouragement and disgust for the loser. Nor, we suppose, is it certain that, under the new conditions, Yale would condescend to play with Harvard at all, while to be shut up to the minor New England colleges would be intolerable to Harvard. The Overseers are therefore accused of seeking indirectly the end which they affect to repudiate. The CRIMSON hints at rebellion; but most significant is its remark that "such a radical change in the whole athletic system would, we firmly...
...expressed by your correspondent in regard to the way affairs are now managed at the boat house. The authorities in charge of this house take too much upon themselves when they refuse to allow any professional rigger to do work in the house. They have no more right to shut John Smith out than they have to refuse the privileges of the club to a member of the college...
...Boston Union grounds will be used for base-ball purposes this season. A new lattice fence will be erected on the Dartmouth street side so as to shut out the view from the bridge, and the infield will be put into first-class condition...
...such as no Eastern city has ever experienced and which few Western districts have ever encountered. Out in Cambridge, you can form no adequate idea of the extent and fierceness of the blizzard through which New York has just passed. Business was stopped and communication with the outside world shut off. The cold was intense and a coating of ice was formed on the East River thick enough to bear the weight of a large crowd who availed themselves of this opportunity of crossing the river. The drifts in the city were enormous and few cabs ventured out after "fares...
...Rhys, in his address of last night, said that the essential part of the new poetry was its spirit, not its metre. Each age is different from all those that preceded it, and is filled with new thoughts, which need a new poetry for their expression. Poets must not shut themselves up away from the world, but must move in the heart of affairs; they must share in the life-blood of the general heart in order to express the whole spirit and burden of their times. The poets of the Elizabethan age took the common idioms and jokes...