Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...itself in all its purple, and fine linen, and bids a gay farewell to its many friends. A whirl of pretty faces, a dance, a song-and the class day comes to an end, and the class, doffing its new tile, goes out into the world to take its stand by the side of those who have gone before. It goes surrounded by all the memories and traditions of the college, and cheered with the hearty "God-speed" of those who remain behind...
...finish; rows more smoothly than any man in the boat. Stroke: unsteady; over-reaches with body and does not slide up far enough; has bad swing; feathers under water and too flat; careless watermanship; does not swing back too far; can push the crew for all they can stand; one of hardest workers in the boat...
...that the doctor or lawyer is surer of success if his knowledge of medicine or law be founded on a college training; but is it also true that the man himself, regardless of his occupation or profession, is a better man if he have a college education ? Can he stand higher, not only in a superficial, but in a deeply made, sincere estimation ? Will he find more in life, and, finding more, appreciate and enjoy it better ? Will not only his practical outward life be assisted but his inward life, which includes his thoughts, purposes, and desires, be likewise benefitted...
Apropos the disgraceful scene at the Brown-Yale game, the Yale News thus coments on Brown's methods of cheering: "It took the form of hooting, stamping on the floor of the grand stand and calling the players names; the occasions for demonstration being pitches, strikes, called balls and Yale errors, indiscrimimately with points scored by Brown. The Brown men boasted that it was very dishonorable conduct and said they learned it in New Haven. Now we have yet to learn that it is not a point of honor with Yale men not to cheer at opponent's errors...
...CLAFLIN, Manager.The college teams contesting for the base-ball championship, at present stand as follows...