Word: standing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...whole subject of orators and oratory contains much of great importance to you all. As future voters of this country you should have interest in oratory. To be able to stand on your feet and hold your own, to object to a wrong, to advance a right; all these you must do. The great men whom I have known exerted an influence and you are now to succeed them. That generation has passed off the stage. You must take their place...
...indoor track which was constructed last fall underneath the grand stand on Franklin Field has proved as great a success as was expected and at present there are over a hundred track team candidates training regularly upon it-a larger number than has ever before appeared until much later in the season. The Intercollegiate Relay Meet, to which more than sixty colleges and as many schools have been invited, will take place on Saturday, April 24. The preliminary arrangements have been completed, except the grouping of the colleges, universities and schools. There will be two races to determine the college...
Prizes are valuable, not because they distribute money among the students; to be of real value they must offer an incentive to work that is worth doing and that will be done even if the prizes are not offered. The Boylston Prizes as they stand, are a gratuity; if they are transferred to debating they will serve to build up one of the most important branches of college work...
With this support behind them, the undergraduate members of the Athletic Union made a vigorous stand for a crew. The sentiment of the majority of the Union finally became so strong for the crew that three prominent graduate officers of the Union who had been very much opposed to having a crew handed in their resignations. Their resignations were accepted and it was then unanimously voted to have a crew...
...with one arm, Rood, in straightening his body, lost his balance and let the ball fall. The terms of the game say nothing about the straightening of the body, but it has been customary to get to an upright position. It is thought, however, that the latter record will stand. The performance was done in public and was testified to by over a dozen witnesses...