Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale freshman take very little interest in their foot-ball team. Some days not more than two or three go out to practice. Unless they brace they will stand a very poor chance of beating Harvard. [New Haven Union...
...return of "borrowed" umbrellas appear on the bulletin board at Memorial makes plain to everyone, and particularly to those who have been "borrowed" from, the necessity of some safe method of caring for umbrellas left there. As it is now, a man either leaves his umbrella in the stand outside, with the somewhat unpleasant consciousness that the chances are about one in five he will find it "borrowed" on his return, or else he carries it, wet and dripping, into the dining room with him. Truly it seems as though some remedy were imperative. Cannot the board of managers...
...regulation and restraint upon college sports. Probably the best way this could be done would be to make athletic training a part of the curriculum. If a student were compelled to blister his hands with a pair of oars, or cripple his fingers with a hard base ball, or "stand up" before Prof. John L. Sullivan for a specified time every day, perhaps the fascination would wear off, and he might be induced to give some little time and a little thought to his studies. At any event, there would in this method be an absence of that wild excitement...
Evangelist.-"I am glad to say that I can stand up and confess that I am a sinner...
...wishes or the wishes of their parents or guardians. To believe that any improvement in the character of the service is bound to reconcile the college to its involuntary bondage and to remove the anomalous character of the proceeding is absurd. In everything else the college refuses to stand in loco parentis. In this matter it insists upon so standing. And yet here, even it fails in really occupying the position of parent in relation to the students. The custom (and possibly the wishes) of a large majority of the parents of the students is opposed to morning prayers, especially...