Word: stood
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unnecessary hitch to mar the pleasure of the evening. Among all the events, none, perhaps, attracted so much attention as the team race with Yale, which proved fully as interesting and exciting as was expected. Harvard made a good showing in this and won with comparative ease. Harvard stood well in every event, and, while no records were broken by us, our men did excellent work. The monotonous and hard training of the past few weeks has now been well repaid, and every Harvard competitor, as well as Mr. Lathrop for his faithful coaching, can be assured of the gratitude...
...second proposition: "Shall a committee composed of the captains and managers of the four athletic organizations, ex officio, and four members of the graduate departments be empowered to draft constitutions for the four athletic organizations, to be submitted to the university for ratification before Jan. 1, 1894?" the vote stood...
...Constantine. who learned through a vision. Excavations were made, the story tells, and three crosses were round. The cross of Christ was pointed out by a sick woman, who was healed by touching it. The site as thus determined was within the second wall of the city, that which stood in the time of Christ...
...life of the University. So to associate it with Phillips Brooks would be a help towards keeping this religious life what his whole teaching and personal influence went so far to make it,-unselfish and genuine and thoroughly manly. And there is one point of especial appropriateness. If he stood for anything, it was for unity of the positive kind: the sinking of minor differences in hard work for the fundamental aims which belong to all the denominations in common. He would be very glad, one cannot but feel, to have his name given to a building where Congregationalists...
...Harvard Union holds a peculiar position, a position which is not of the highest and which tends to keep away the class of men whom it most needs to bring it a better character and position. The Union stands today in a more favorable light than it has ever stood; it has bettered itself to a considerable extent during the past few years. But there is still chance for improvement if it is to take a high stand among other college organizations. The principle that any man who may speak twice shall be taken into the society obviously does...