Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pipes. Everybody knows what a delight it is to linger shivering and half-frozen, waiting for a drop or two of warm water, and finally in despair to dash under the ice-cold stream in place of something more agreeable. And everybody knows that it is the proper thing to complain of the gymnasium officials. But everybody does not know that in the present condition of affairs it is impossible to supply an adequate amount of heated water during the crowded hours of exercise from four to six o'clock in the afternoon. The boilers now in use have...
...restore it to its old position of usefulness and popularity. Last year, owing to the indifference of the of the instructor in elocution, the interest taken in the club was allowed to die out owing to the rarity of the meetings and the club itself became practically a thing of the past. This year a few of the old members of the club, who still retain an interest in its success, tried to revive it, but thus far their efforts have been unavailing. Steps should be taken at once by those of the old members who still feel an interest...
Poor old Harvard! Princeton whitewashed her foot-ball team, and now the same team has been defeated by Yale by a score of 29 to 4. If this sort of thing keeps up, Harvard's eminence as an educational power will be gone and she will be obliged to hang several yards of crape on her front door. - Baltimore American...
...other hand Yale made a larger score throughout the fall than Princeton, and has beaten her opponents each time more easily. It therefore seems somewhat unfair to make absolutely no distinction between the two, and we think the convention in its two resolutions has perhaps done the best thing it could. Yale certainly has not won the championship of 1886 and yet she has played a better game of foot-ball than any other college in the league...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - There was an editorial in your columns some time since which severely criticised the action of some members of the freshman class who made a habit of leaving recitation rooms in the middle of the hour. There is another thing constantly occurring that ought to be criticised even more harshly, - I mean the practice some men have made of leaving Sanders in the midst of the lectures that are frequently delivered there. It must cause a speaker no little annoyance to see, before his lecture is half through, a score or more of men climb over...