Word: soon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...then referred to his own class of fifty-three members of whom 10 per cent. used intoxicating liquors, a much smaller proportion than the average class of today. None acquired the habit after leaving college, but those who had already formed the habit in college soon fell into confirmed drunkenness. It is during youth then, between 17 and 25, that a man's habits are formed. At that time he often has great confidence in himself that he will not transgress the limit which he calls soberness, but gradually he becomes more and more entangled until he reaches the border...
...year were elected as follows: president, O. A. Shaw; vice-president, S. W. Sturgis; sec. and treas., H. Tallant; senior director, R. D. Brown, junior director, R. B. Hale; sophomore director, S. Chase; freshman director, P. Manchester. Mr. Hale spoke on the advantage of having the fall tournament as soon as possible and next Tuesday, October 15, was chosen...
...meeting tonight this subject will be further considered under the leadership of Robert Treat Payne, president of the Boston Associated Charities, and C. W. Birtwell, secretary of the Children's Aid Society. It is earnestly hoped that some definite scheme for student charities may be made and accepted as soon as possible in order that active work may be begun at once. To this end the presence of every student is required at the meeting to night, as well as his hearty co-operation in whatever plan may be adopted. Here certainly is a duty incumbent upon every Harvard...
...intended to extend the use of rowing as a pastime. Anyone who has seen at the English Universities thirty or forty boats of all descriptions, by thus used of an afternoon, by teachers and students, by the rich and the poor, will be pleased to think that rowing will soon be, not only the profession of a few among us, but the healthy recreation of a great many...
...minutes. Goal, Score, 6-0. Stevens after this gained a few yards by short rushes of the quarterback and half-backs, when Harvard got the ball. After having three downs Lee got the ball and made a good rush of by Bowman who gained no ground. Harvard was soon forced to kick and Cumnock getting the ball rushed over the lines but a claim of foul was allowed. The ball was then passed to Trafford who kicked a goal from the field. Score 11-0. Harvard soon lost the ball by a poor pass of Dean...