Word: stand
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...classes "the good old days;" And Eighties and Nineties will meet to inspire The recreant present with old time fire. Here friends-old friends-will make their tryst And grasp once more dear comrade's fist. They'll laugh once more at the ancient jest; Retell the stories that stand Time's test. They'll dust off the score of forgotten games, Evoke old crews of the Charles and the Thames, Repeople the Delta, and Jarvis and Holmes With heroes of battles quite equal to Rome's. Revive U. 5 and calls on the Dean Compulsory prayers, and the Holly...
...Lees Knowles, M.P. spoke in behalf of the Oxford and Cambridge men, and expressed his gratification at seeing the bust of John Harvard, a graduate of Emanuel College, Cambridge. After referring to the strictly amateur stand taken by the Oxford and Cambridge athletes, who came to America without even a professional trainer, he expressed the hope that Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Yale might stand out as an example to all colleges in clean athletic sports. The words of Washington, inscribed beneath his bust in the Union, are appropriate in this: "Let us raise a standard to which the wise...
Last summer a plot of ground behind the north football stand on Soldiers Field was laid out as a practice cricket crease. Heretofore the cricket team has been severely inconvenienced by the lack of a good practice ground, but the new crease will do away with this want to a great extent...
...opening paragraph: "To an American college, the word of all words is 'truth'. 'Veritas' is the motto of Harvard; 'Lux et Veritas' the motto of Yale. . . . Now, whether the truth be truth of religion, or of science, or of commerce, or of intercourse among fellowmen, a college to stand for it must believe...
Editorially, the number is very good. In speaking of the Harvard Union an appeal is made to the student body to make the place the centre of social activities, so that it may truly stand for "the brotherhood of college interests and college men. . . The best thanks for a good gift is to put it to good use. If every Harvard man will use the Union enthusiastically, promptly, unselfishly, and persistently, there will not be a moment's doubt of the success which will be the best thanks from the University to Major Higginson...