Word: sit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Yale beats us at the game of corralling giants. Is there no game for ordinary mortals to play? Must they forever sit and warm the bleachers? Must they forever simply sing and cheer? Did God really put all the brain, nerve, heart, skill, adroitness, quickness worth cultivating into Polyphemus? Has not this idolatry of burly Sullivans, and Wooly Goliaths game far enough? Why does this good old game of football languish in America? Why does good old Rugby languish? Why do not the men who pine upon the bleachers take this up and make it popular? It is a better...
...lowly" mentioned in the text are the teachable and inquiring spirits. We cannot teach unless we are learning at the same time. We should sit down before reality as a little child, with open mind and heart, and do what we believe that reality tells us. In this way only can we meet and overcome the great problems of life...
...such night would not only add to the popularity of the club, but would be an important factor in the promotion of College spirit. If a man could drop into the Union during the evening and be sure of seeing old friends and making new ones, if he could sit with them around a table and smoke and sing, I do not think I exaggerate when I say that the Union Dining Room would be well filled, and, what is more to the point, the membership list of the club would grow at a rapid rate...
...system this year. The first and most important was the abolishing of the Senior and Junior clubs and the formation of an active University debating body, to which all members of the University except Freshmen and Sophomores should be eligible. The suggestion that the coach of a University team sit as one of the five judges at the trials was adopted, and the coach was further given power, with the consent of a majority of the original board of judges, to replace members of a first team by members of the second, should the change seem desirable. Another change...
...with a sounding-board, as proposed for the Stadium. A short distance in front of this as many chairs may be placed as is found necessary. While the Class Day guests are assembling here, the Senior class can march around the Yard, as formerly, cheering the buildings, and then sit down in a semicircle about the platform and in front of the chairs; the underclassmen gathering on either side of the seats and behind the Seniors. The Ivy Orator, backed up by a sounding-board and the wall of the building, should be heard here fully as well...