Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...decorations on Beck Hall and Hilton Block are especially fine. The side of Beck Hall facing Harvard square is resplendent with the gay colors of the different classes, above which the figures 1636-1886 stand out in bold relief...
...illumination of the castle and bridge, a sight well worth seeing. Long before dark the streets were thronged with eager multitudes hurrying to advantageous positions whence to view the spectacle. Perhaps the favorite place was on the Heiligenberg, the lofty hill across the Neckar, and there I took my stand in the garden of the Philosophenhoche. Gradually the daylight faded, and starless night came down. Heidelberg was only a confusion of twinkling lights, and on the vast black hill which loomed precipitously behind it there was nothing to mark the location of the castle. All was impenetrable gloom. The lights...
...upon the amount of interest taken in lawn tennis in the college this year, if we take as an evidence the recent tournament. The number of entries was larger than ever before, and the individual playing has been remarkably good. In the tennis world, Harvard has taken a good stand, both in college and out. One of our graduates has recently been rated at the head of the 'world's' players by an English authority, and judging by present tendencies there will be several more Harvard men to back up his reputation. We have unusual facilities for field tennis...
...report of the position Yale has taken in regard to the foot-ball games this fall. It seems a little strange for her to take such a position immediately after a convention in which she took part through her representatives and agreed to the plans decided upon. The matter stands thus between Yale and Princeton: Last year Princeton could not play on the usual ground, New York, on account of a faculty regulation. So she played in New Haven. This year the regulation still exists, the rumor mentioned in the article to the contrary. It would seem proper, therefore, that...
...thought is of so much importance as the thought itself. A man should not only be possessed of the truth, but he should also be master of the means for conveying that truth to his fellow men. To do that he must free himself from all mannerisms which stand as obstacles between himself and the people he would reach. One of the most powerful weapons of the man who would be a leader in public affairs, is the command of his voice. We are repelled or attracted by the tones by which a speaker employs, and it is therefore...