Word: takingly
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...have never rowed yet, and who will, in all likelihood, not enter a crew at Springfield this year, were voting with Yale with as much regularity as if it had been arranged beforehand. This furnishes a sequel to the nomination of officers. Harvard energetically opposed all these amendments, taking the honorable and magnanimous ground that if the colleges were allowed to take students from their different schools, the larger colleges would have a still greater advantage over the smaller than they now have. A decrease of enthusiasm and competition would result, and the true interests of the association would...
...have failed to carry our point, but it is a matter of question whether our interests really suffer by this resolution. For the present, at least, Yale has the advantage, because she can take valuable men from the Sheffield S. S. (in fact, we understand that this year three of the intended crew belong to that school), which is large, and comparatively few in it are graduates of any college; while we have only a small number in the Lawrence S. S., a large part of whom are graduates. But nothing prevents us from placing in our crew men from...
...those noisy gentlemen who testify their approbation by shouts and cat-calls, to give up the habit. It is, no doubt, conducive to harmony and strict time to be interrupted by a well-meant but misplaced war-whoop; but the members of the Parietal Committee prefer to take their music straight. In short, the singing in the Yard must stop, unless the window-critics can refrain from their customary vociferous applause. The habit is boyish enough, at best, and can be relinquished without much trouble. Under the circumstances, we trust that we have heard the last...
...spoke condescendingly of Tennyson, and the great British breast swelled with indignation that the poet laureate should be patronized by a wandering American. Moreover, it was reported that he had left in the far West a much-abused wife, and that she, poor lady, was about to take the lecture-stand in order to gain an honest livelihood by proclaiming to the world the crimes and cruelties of her husband. Alas! Joaquin Miller has fallen, and the place of the Popular Poet is vacant once more. For the present, we can merely conjecture in what particular way the coming poet...
...Take to her, wind, this kiss, and softly...