Word: stande
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...catching a fly regardless of the earnest advice of his friends to drop it. In the sixth innings the Brunonians made two runs by the repeated errors of Thatcher, who was playing in a strange position and was doubtless agitated by the unearthly Providential howls from the grand stand. In the eighth, Tyng went to third base, a change by no means productive of victory. Safe hits by Tower and Nash gave us a run, but the last innings came to an untimely end with a fine catch by Dow, when we had a man on third, and needed...
...from last year's crew, whom he supposes us to have. That by hard work we can enter a crew which will do us credit we do not doubt, but it is our firm conviction that without more enthusiasm and without the services of our best men, we stand little chance of winning back what the newspapers are pleased to call "our lost prestige...
...societies individually, - that elections will be run by cliques instead of societies. Even if this were admitted, - and respect for the higher tone of the class forbids it, - we should be the gainer in the fact that the wire-pulling is done by ever-changing cliques, taking their stand annually on very different class interests, and such as are demanded by the circumstances of their times, rather than by organized societies using an inherited duty of opposition to rival societies, whether or not in subservience to class interests...
...that the races need some proud and dignified college like the University of Vermont to give them tone and put them on a respectable basis: moreover, the desire of Union and Hamilton is great, and their cry is loud for some one to enter the lists whom they can stand a chance of beating...
...jump with that enthusiasm which ought to be manifested, and to induce them to join, shingles might be made, and sold at the extremely low price of $1.00, including seals, on which could be portrayed the elegant and chaste design of a youth with Harvard hat and stand-up collar diligently occupied in driving a plough, with either "Speed the Plough" or "Labor omnia vincit" inscribed underneath as a motto...