Word: star
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very successful way the causes of our lack of success in athletics in recent years. It is only too true that one of the fatal weaknesses of the college in an athletic way is our proneness to one-man dependence, or as the Advocate terms it, "the star system." A result of this is that we are easily discouraged; let anything happen to our star and we become despondent and down on our luck, lose half our energy for work, and are of course beaten. What we want is "a little more pluck and persistency," and a great deal more...
...Galop, "Shooting Star" Bial...
...following article appeared in yesterday's New York Star...
...half-mile at the meeting of the Columbia College Athletic Association, there has been a great deal of discussion on the subject of the respective merits of the men. A day or two after the meeting a very loud and boastful article appeared in the New York Star purporting to come from Conneff, in which he challenged Dohm to race. The article was in very bad taste, and everyone was glad to learn through a letter by Conneff, which appeared in the Clipper, that the article was ficticious, Conneff disclaiming all knowledge of it. In his letter to the Clipper...
...regular meeting of the Zoological club was held last evening in the Agassiz Museum. Papers of a tecenical nature on "Visions in Arthropods," "Oogenesis in Gasterpoda" and on the "Nervous System of Echinoderms," were read, and a general discussion on each ensued. Some very beautiful microscopic sections of a star fish, showing the nervous system, were then examined. The evening was much enjoyed, and the opportunities these meetings give the men interested in Zoology of exchanging their views on disputed points has been found of great value...