Word: takings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heat and glare arising from the jets are such as to compel any one who consults his own comfort to hold a book before him or something of the sort to keep the light from his face. This evil could be easily reme died if the college authorities would take the matter in hand and put globes about the jets. Another source of annoyance, accompanied often with a cold, are the draughts which come from the windows in the gallery. When these are left open, cold currents of air rush in on the unprotected backs of unfortunate listeners. The third...
...tired of urging under-classmen to take some interest in the college, and to do something but loaf their leisure away; and most tired of pointing out that the interest of the college at large is the interest of every particular student...
...will not go into strict traing until after Christmas, but will work more or less every day on the water as long as the harbor is open, and later in the "gym." The candidates are also advised to take part in the hare and hounds runs and be in the open air as much as possible...
Besides rowing in the tank the candidates will exercise on the chest-weights, with Indian clubs and dumb-bells, and take a short run each...
...which he loathes, and he is likely to get little encouragement to learn games that he does not know. On the other hand there are those to whom proficiency in games is an instinct, and the gaudium certaminis a stimulant-almost an intoxicating one. To advise these men to take sober walks that they may avoid over-exertion and broken bones, is an absurdity, but they may accept and profit by advice as to how best to develop their powers. Still, to these the monotony of the gymnasium will in the long run become irksome. The tennis player will admit...