Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...daily prayers. The general religious standing of the college is raised by these meetings attended voluntarily from sincere Christian motives, but the compulsory attendance at daily prayers affects this religious standing adversely if at all. With profound respect for religion, we earnestly call for a recognition of its proper sphere, and an observance of it, which is based on sincerity and not on half-hearted indifference, or positive mockery...
...certainly too early to say just what will be the organization and sphere of this student committee. We venture, however, to predict that it will not be an Amherst Senate to have charge of the discipline of the college. We want a conference committee, and a committee which, unlike the conference committee of Harvard, shall be their own judge of the time for meeting the committee of the faculty. We believe also that while the under-classes should be represented, the committee should be essentially of upper classmen, as in the proportion as power is associated with the senior...
...ball, a Harvard man accidentally bumped into a Yale man, upon perceiving which the referee called time. Each man begged the other's pardon and was profuse in his apologies. This having been amicably settled, and the cuffs and collars carefully adjusted, the game continued. Soon the velvety sphere was in the possession of a wearer of the pink. As he ran down the field, the ease of his motion, the exquisite mould of his features, and the god like brilliancy of his diamond shirt stud glistening in the sun-light, drew forth long and continued applause. A touch-down...
...ball nine, in changing the time of the senior elective examinations, and in undoubtedly' producing an effect on the minds of the faculty committees when the subject of annuals, that great bugbear of Williams, was under discussion. But even if this organization had exerted no influence, even if its sphere of action were smaller than at present, it is still an excellent institution, inasmuch as it is a step in the right direction, a beginning of a growth...
...Boston Herald will say this morning that the '86 Signet succumbed before the superior skill of the seniors in swinging the sceptre at the seductive sphere yesterday morning. Score 20 to 11; base hits, '85, 15-20; '86, 6-9; errors...