Word: timing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...rents are all clear gain. Now, if I paid a private person $8 per week for a room in his house, I rather think that person would consent to keep the entry brilliantly illuminated without any demur. When the College lets me a room for a certain time for a fixed price, it stands in the same relation to me as a private individual, and should not be so unjust as to refuse fair demands which a private individual would gladly grant. Right and Justice may at last triumph, but until that day I shall feel myself...
Nine, and its result gives us hope that it will be as good as the old one, notwithstanding the loss of such valuable men as White, Eustis, Estabrooks, and Annan. Captain Tyler has done exceedingly well to produce so good a Nine in so short a time and out of material so untried. Bettens was much praised for his catching. The following is the score...
...until, during the month of May, the gentlemen whom we have to thank for the success of the enterprise at Springfield, conceived the idea of connecting the rooms of the different members of the Company with the College bell, by a wire between it and Thayer. From that time we can be sure that the telegraph operators were the most punctual students both at chapel and recitations...
...races of last Saturday were more successful than is usually the case on such occasions. Thanks to the gentlemen who had them in charge, they came off promptly, although a short time was taken in improvising an anchor; but as a gentleman who saw the need generously offered to supply it by the gift of a new anchor, we may fear no delay from that cause again...
...fact that few who come here have received the slightest preparation for the life before them. It would be thought unfair to blindfold a child and expect him to perform creditably upon the tight-rope. But the parent and teacher do the same thing all the time, and are greatly chagrined at the result. You wish to give the charge intrusted you a Christian character? By all means; there is abundant room for such. But do not persuade yourselves that it can be made strong enough to endure the battle of life, by training it like the young vine, shielding...