Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...order that the large following of the latter gentry might not find so ready access to the yard. But it has been ascertained on excellent authority that it was the practice of some of the professionals employed to give a package of yard tickets to some accomplice, who would stand in the neighborhood of the gate and sell the tickets to whoever wished to purchase them. The unpleasant results of this dishonest dealing are so apparent that we would urge the class committee to take every possible precaution to prevent a repetition...
Teacher: "Class in Geography, stand up. What is a strait?" Small boy (next to the foot): "A strait beats two pairs, three of a kind, and generally takes the pot-unless some fellow happens to have a cold deck slipped up his coat sleeve." Teacher: "Let us pray...
...should desire to do this is difficult to understand; the permission granted to anticipate Rhetoric is doubtless a good measure, or else it would not stand among the enactments of the faculty. And we wish to urge upon all '85 men who desire to relieve themselves of an uncomfortable burden of their coming year, not to allow themselves to be in the least frightened or disheartened. The work required to master the subject for the examination can readily be accomplished by an hour's reading each day during the three months' vacation. The examination assigned is not as difficult...
...prophecies futile. We were disposed to consider Princeton out of the race, but Saturday's defeat is an emphatic denial of such a fact. Our nine was outplayed in every point and has lost the series with the Princetons. In number of defeats Harvard, Princeton and Brown stand equal, while Yale is in the front rank. It becomes more and more of a puzzle to us why Princeton so easily walks away with our nine, who have proved themselves capable of beating Yale at home and defeating Brown in a well-played game. Chances have most decidedly gone against...
...After much climbing we reach the balcony (where the pigeon holes are), and here the elevator ends and the misery from coal-gas begins. After climbing an almost perpendicular ladder for about thirty feet through the "top-loft," we pass through the last of the many trap-doors and stand upon the summit of "our boarding house." Although it was raining at the time of our visit, yet the "view" made us wish to camp up there for a week and live on the scenery. We say with the Advocate that the tower should be opened. However, we might wait...