Word: sink
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expense of equipping the room falls upon the club; this expense is estimated at a little over two hundred dollars. It will be partially met by the rental of the lockers with which the room will be fitted; sixteen of these lockers have already been put in. The sink is thirteen feet long with wash boxes at each end. The activity displayed by the club so far is commendable. The organization will doubtless be of great benefit to all men interested in photography...
...admiration that we think could hardly exist were not the colleges drawn together as they now are. The athletic life which every-where engages lively interest, and which affords endless opportunity for competition, comes surely to the surface, while the intellectual life in which competition is uncertain and unsatisfactory sinks beneath, but still exerts a far reaching and, we believe, an unimpaired influence on the community at large. We see in these contests which arouse ambition and which render the existence of a large number of physically perfect men absolutely necessary, advantages before which the disadvantages sink in insignificance...
...affairs would be positively ludicrous if it was confined to speech alone; but when this ignorance finds expression in the columns of the newspapers of the country it greatly injures the reputation of the college. One article about the depravity of college life will have more effect and will sink deeper into the minds of the mass of people than any number of pieces to the contrary. All protestations of innocence, when coming from a college man, are fruitless. The public is determined to misjudge us. The term "Harvard man" is considered by many to be a synonym for contemptible...
While rowing on the Quinnipiac river Friday afternoon, a short distance below the third railroad bridge, the boat of the Yale Freshmen ran on a submerged stake which broke a large hole in the bottom and caused the boat to sink immediately. The crew went on foot to the boat-house and returned in the barge to their shell which they towed down the river. The accident is similar to that which befel the sophomore crew this spring. The shell likewise is so badly injured that it will probably be useless...
...meeting of the Princeton Alumni Association in New York, President McCosh made a speech, in which he said: "The fact is, we must either march on with Harvard and Yale, or sink to be one of 400 colleges in America...