Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following story is told of President Eliot : At one time the students got in the habit of sitting in large numbers upon the fence. The president not desiring such a thing to become a custom, was at a loss how best to break up this practice. At last one evening, as he was walking along the sidewalk and the students were sitting on the fence singing, etc., the president said : "Gentlemen - Allow me to congratulate you on having adopted the Yale custom." The president was never troubled afterwards by students sitting on the fence...
...show himself worthy of the crew of '83, Mr. Sherwood settled the matter by jumping over-board, swimming to the float, and assisting his companions to land. As their entrance into the boat-house was entirely unexpected, there was no one there to meet them, so the only thing possible to do under the circumstances was to order hacks and come home, wrapped in as many carriage robes as the stable-keeper could be prevailed upon to lend. It is feared that the boat is somewhat strained, but it will not be definitely known until today, when the launch will...
Thus far the preliminary games with professional teams show the Harvards to be the best prepared college team. But playing professional teams, in which the collegians have nothing to lose and everything to win, is a very different thing from playing for the championship, when both sides become unnerved by anxiety in regard to the result, and fail to play in the good form they show against the professionals. The coolest team of the three rivals - Harvard, Yale and Princeton - will win the first game of the series they play together. - [N. Y. World...
...every way commendable, and its marked appearance at this college is, we think, indicative of a growing tendency among college men in general to devote themselves more than ever before to a cultivation of systematic physical growth and of gymnastic exercises. In the present case, however, the chief thing is to be assured that the present industry in training will continue unabated until the day of the meeting in New York...
...Miss Asphyxia was a huge joke. When young Butterfield came down stairs with his hair nicely oiled and parted, and brushed up on each side in the form of a pigeon-wing, and his store clothes on, he was immediately struck by the appearance of Asphyxia, and the only thing he could think of was the Rollo books which he had found a few years before in the Sunday School library of his native town, Saug Centre. He began to wonder if the young gentleman whom Mrs. De Sorosis had promised to introduce him to would wear pantalets, little white...