Word: taken
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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This was too much for me. To be taken for a Freshman! I could not stand it. I tried to rise to show him gracefully but firmly to the door. He seized me by the coat-collar and shook me until I thought this spirit of 1677 would never...
...good reason why the actual state of things should not be accepted, and that freedom from recitations granted, which otherwise will, however much to our detriment, be taken...
...Senior class have been laboring are now definitely abandoned. The half the class dissatisfied with the principles on which the other half ran the meeting of the class now recognize, after painful experience, the fact that arguments are of no avail. The next step in the matter will be taken by those who support the officers elect, who will fill the vacant offices from their own ranks. The rest of the class - whether that be a majority or a minority is not now known - will then probably take some independent action...
OWING to the wind and storm on Saturday, the match of the Rifle club was not a success. In such a gale it was impossible to shoot, but the excellent condition of the club and the interest taken in rifle-shooting were shown by the large number of men who entered for the match. The weather has changed so decidedly during the week, that we hope for more satisfactory results at the regular fall championship match to take place to-morrow. Columbia and Cornell are beginning to take up rifle-shooting, and the prospect of an intercollegiate match...
...wisdom of our action in withdrawing from the Rowing Association of American Colleges was proved conclusively, if any proof was needed, by the course pursued in the late Convention of the Association. Three colleges - Cornell, Columbia, and Princeton - were represented, and the most important action taken was a resolution to row hereafter in four-oared instead of six-oared shells. The fear that this backward step would be taken was one of our strongest reasons for leaving the Association, and now we see that our apprehension was no idle fancy. We shall have next summer three separate intercollegiate contests...