Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ball nine and the Mott Haven team would much prefer to see the energy, which is to be exerted to keep the championships at Harvard, displayed in furnishing them subscriptions for necessary expenses, and candidates for vacancies, rather than providing new seats for the penniless '89 men to sit upon to witness their victories. The old seats must do for another year at least...
...shared by a large number of men in the class. One piece of descriptive writing is worth, to the student, half a dozen criticisms, no matter how well or carefully the latter may be written. It seems like reiterating a self evident truth to say that almost anyone can sit down and pick to pieces or show defects in the best of written work. But, does anyone think that merely because a person is able to show faults in some one else, he is also able to write perfect English himself and avoid all the defects and blemishes...
...college year. This year we admit that we have been outwitted. None of the customary notices have met the approbation of the new committee. Something more startling was demanded, and the columns of yesterday's issue contain the initiatory menace of the committee. "Seniors are urged to sit for their photographs now, in order to avoid a rush in the spring." (The italics are our own). We wish to state frankly that we felt some hesitancy in admitting these revolutionary words to our journal. We felt that our reputation was at stake, for did we not barely a month since...
...Seniors are urged to sit for their photographs now, in order to avoid a rush in the spring...
Yale freshmen have no right to sit on the Chapel street fence except as a reward for beating the Harvard freshmen in an athletic contest. It is a pleasant fence, commanding an unhindered view of one of the fairest and most delightfully frequented thoroughfares in New Haven, and offers to the members of the higher classes many of the advantages of a well-situated club house. The freshmen, the other day, after beating the sophomores by four to three at a game of base-ball, raided this fence and sat upon it, heedless of the indefensible unusualness...