Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...always run as smoothly as it does now. At present if a man enjoys rowing he is enabled to gratify his tastes either by becoming a member of the 'Varsity crew, his class crew, or else by keeping a single scull on the river. Practically no obstacle stand in the way of any one who wishes to take his exercise in this way. A comparatively new and commodious boat-house is, on the payment of a small fee, at the disposal of any one desiring to make use of it. After a spin on the river, hot and cold water...
...imputation to the contrary; but on entering Memorial they cast aside all the conventional rules of society, and proceed to enjoy themselves in their own way, utterly regardless of the feelings of those in the immediate vicinity. They stalk in with their hats on, and in some cases stand for five minutes talking before they remove them. Seated at the table, they begin to talk and laugh loudly on subjects distasteful to those unfortunates who happen to be within ear-shot. Again, as though they had been unused to good manners at home, they toss food to and fro across...
...that there were two schools of temperance, the wet and the dry. He preferred the dry, as did Dickens' young lady on board the vessel in the case of the fifth lover who wouldn't jump overboard to save her, because he was the most practical. In taking a stand against liquor there were too heresies to be met. The personal heresy, where people of high standing used liquor moderately and had it on their sideboards for all; and the heresy in regard to license. The only way in which the terrible power of the liquor organizations in our country...
...West or with it a new one had been founded out there where the advantages are fewer it strikes us that more real good might have been accomplished. As it is, within a few miles of the place in which the new Clark University is to be founded, stand two of the oldest and largest universities in the country; and within a surrounding territory not larger than some single western states which has no good university, are found Harvard, Yale, Williams Dartmouth, Brown, Bowdoin and Colby. We cannot have too many endowments of this generous kind for educational purposes...
...junior exhibition from the class of eighty-eight. As this is the first means given to the class of knowing the comparative work of its members, the announcement was awaited with a good deal of excitement. The list which contained all the men who have an average stand above 2.50, on a scale of four, consisted of 76 men, 19 of whom, standing above 3.15, will be admitted into the "Phi Beta Kappa." These are the following, arranged alphabetically in groups. The first group of six containing those who have an average stand above 3.30: Carter, Cornwall, Fisher, Isbell, Steiner...