Word: suits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Three theological students at Yale have brought suit against the selectmen of New Haven for refusing to permit them to vote last fall...
...Memorial, about half the waiters were retained, and the students who continued to dine there were allowed to suit their own preferences in choosing tables, as there was no regular assignment of seats. On Christmas day the men who happened in at Memorial were treated to an excellent dinner; one of the best, in fact, that the hall has ever served. In the gymnasium about fifty men exercised every afternoon, under the supervision of Mr. Lathrop, and the absence of the regular crews made the use of the rowing machines popular. A diversion was created on last Tuesday night...
...life at college during Christmastide is far from unenjoyable, for if a Harvard student cannot be contented when he is annoyed by neither chapel, lectures, nor the irrepressible summons boy, he must indeed be hard to suit...
...written, "Yea, but he shall be likened unto an ass bending beneath two burdens," -stop a minute; there is something in that quotation that seems hardly to apply to the point in question; let us say, for instance, porter instead of ass; then the scriptural words will suit our case exactly...
...every one of these steps the Freshmen were wholly in the wrong, and by no means up to the proper standard of fair dealing. It was an utterly inexcusable act on the part of the three men in question to refuse to play, because the time did not suit them; especially when by so doing they weakened the team very seriously. It was an error of judgment on the part of the captain to refuse to play with a team on which there were three substitutes, however crippled the team might be. And it was not fair to Harvard...