Word: think
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...making his canvass for money he would simply invite fellows to join the boat-club instead of subscribing ten dollars to the crew, and nobody would be prevented from giving as a subscription more or less than that amount. By this plan the University crew could be supported, I think, out of the general funds of the club; for the number of rowing men would not increase in proportion to the number of paying members, and there would be no need of spending all the money on the purchase and repair of boats. Every year the University crew would turn...
...tell you what," said Renardy; "there's the man you want to see, over in the corner. He's been asking me who knew enough, around here, to examine heads. He can't find his proper sphere. Sometimes he thinks he was originally intended to be the idol of his country, down in Washington; and then again he tries to convince me that he's just the man for assistant librarian; but I don't think he's got presence and majesty enough for that. Just bring the result of your long study and remarkable ability to bear...
...first day of April being past and no change having been made in the hour of commencing recitations, we have entered upon a trial of a system which we think the majority of the students wished to have put in practice. The boating and ball men would like, doubtless, the extra hour in the afternoon, but by far the greater number of students prefer not to gain an hour in the morning, if at the same time an hour in the evening has to be sacrificed...
NATURALLY enough, we think, the [Cornell] challenges were not accepted. The papers of Harvard and Yale treated the affair in a perfectly cool and proper way, but the Cornell Era seized the opportunity of indulging in some of that ungentlemanly bluster of which it is so fond. We do not doubt that the challenged universities acted without any mean or unworthy motives. - Acta Columbiana...
...totally inconsistent with the reputation and position of the New York papers. While we have no desire to enter into an elaborate discussion on the wisdom of prohibiting the holders of scholarships from those pleasures whose only harm consists in intemperate use, we will merely say that we think the majority of experienced, fair-minded men would unite in disapproving such a course. The plan of college assistance is, as we understand it, to smooth the rugged path of the poor but promising student, so that that part of his energy which would otherwise be spent in overcoming the difficulties...