Word: tend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is a feeling at Oxford that cricket and foot-ball tend to weaken the crew by drawing away men who would other wise try for a place in the shell. The average weight of the Cambridge trial eights is but 158 lbs., but the material is superior to that which formed last year's victorious eight. Cambridge also has three old men in training, and there is a feeling among the wearers of the light blue that Cambridge will, as last year, row a winning race...
...Yale they have already foreseen the advantage of this by securing the services of a person, who is thoroughly competent to deal with the minor details and intricacies of the large daily publications, to give a series of lectures on that subject. A course of this kind would tend to be a sort of stepping-stone for those who intend to make journalism their profession, from the inferior to the superior grades of newspaper work. Mr. Pulitzer, of the New York World, is a strong advocate of the formation of a college chair of journalism, believing that by this means...
...There are, however, a few places where especial care should be taken, and which seem to have been neglected. These are the steps of the various dormitories, and more especially Weld and Thayer. Covered with ice as they are at present, with but a slight covering of ashes, which tend merely to conceal the slippery surface beneath, they endanger the limbs of every one who makes use of them. More than ordinary care should be used to keep these steps free from ice. Several minor accidents have taken place which may be but the precursors of one more serious...
...which may be said of it, while they refuse to credit any representations to the contrary. Then, too, we have more rich men's son's here than any other college possesses, and rich men's sons are, as a rule, wild and extravagant, and by their actions tend to bring the whole college into disrepute. The chief reason, however, for our "bad eminence" is the readiness which the newspapers show to discredit all colleges, and Harvard, as the largest, gets the greatest share. There is a natural hostility between college-bred men and those who are "self-made...
...Cleary," the old negro so well known about the Chemical Laboratory, is now at home dangerously ill. He has been connected with the university for upwards of forty years, and before the time of janitors used to tend fires and black boots, in which capacity he served Prof. J. C. Cooke while in college...