Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...snow, which covered entirely the icy places in the yard on Saturday, afforded many illustrations of the fact that the wicked stand in slippery places, while the good men fall...
...News maintains its usual worthless character, and we wonder that its readers can stand five issues a week, and should be inclined to admire their long suffering, provided it were displayed in a better cause. - [Crimson.]. The amount of injury done by the Crimson's remark may be great, but we have yet to feel the slightest effect of it, and sting for us there is none as long as we continue to hold the position which is now acknowledged us. The reason why the Crimson should make such a remark is patent to everyone who knows our loyalty...
...knowledge is on a totally different platform; he is in the best sense an aristocrat. Those who begin work at thirteen, and those that are born not to work at all, are alike his inferiors. He should be able to spread light all around. He it is that may stand forth before the world as the model...
...game of foot-ball opens a some-what wider field. More men are required, the rules are easily mastered, and the qualifications demanded a more generally possessed. One should be sound and healthy in heart and lungs, and able to stand thumping and bumping for an hour or two with impunity. If to this hardiness be added a fleet foot, strong limbs, quick perception and presence of mind, one has the requisites of a foot-ball player. Of all college games this is the most accessible, and yet for the average and untrained student it is unquestionably the most dangerous...
...heavy, it is always a pleasure to us to find it on our table, containing, as is its custom, an epitome of the month's doings, with sundry short pieces of interest and literary worth. The News maintains its usual worthless character, and we wonder that its readers can stand five issues a week, and should be inclined to admire their long-suffering, provided it were displayed in a better cause...