Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is one thing we cannot stand. That after all its vituperation and unspeakable arrogance, the News should at last have the pitiless cruelty to call us "a one" is too much. Anything, dear News, but this last bitter slander...
...eyed wanderer haunts the classic shades of Harvard, looking out upon the world with a dreamy eye of listless melancholy. For years I have seen him stand, day after day, at certain hours, upon the curbing or near the fence hard by some well frequented thoroughfare, and gaze - gaze with an unutterable yearning in his countenance and such a hopeless expression of resigned patience in his look that many times I have been tempted to stop and commiserate the sorrows of this noble unfortunate. Cold conventionality has held me back. And I have asked with Homer...
...overseers voted to reserve the right to revoke degrees not held longer than one week. This language is plain. It indicates unmistakably that the degree may be voted, handed over, and then probably reclaimed. The writer's argument discusses the power of the overseers to take a much milder stand - to abstain from the final execution of the charter-power until certain conditions are fulfilled. This question is not at issue. The college authorities can surely announce that they will not vote to confer degrees unless they see fit to do so. But to say - if the English means anything...
...college base-ball league. From information gleaned from private sources we had been led to suppose that Williams generally would see the advantage, and be led to approve any action looking towards a reorganization. "We have a right," cries the Athenoeum, "to frown down upon that disposition to stand aloof from the other colleges, which is becoming more marked upon the part of certain of our larger universities. American student life is to be found purer and more typical in its established traditions in the smaller New England colleges today than in the larger ones; and in seeking to stand...
...quite agree with the correspondent of the Crimson in thinking that a full discussion of the question of withdrawing from the Inter-collegiate Base-Ball League will be of service to the representatives of Harvard at the base-ball convention, in helping them to determine the stand which they will take upon this question. When the subject was first broached we gave it as our opinion that any separate action on the part of Harvard would be unwise and arbitrary, inasmuch as it would be nothing less than an attempt to coerce the other colleges into her way of thinking...