Word: toward
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...glorious victory for the blue has been planned as carefully and thoroughly as a general plans a campaign. The second reason, somewhat akin to the first, is found in the hearty co-operation of old foot-ball players among the alumni and their willingness to coach the team toward the end of the season, even at some sacrifice of business or professional interests...
Suggestions made by Professor Drummond and words spoken by some of the preachers to the University have led to a desire on the part of a number of students to make some effort toward helping to uplift the lives of the masses in the great city so near us. Encouraged by the success of meetings addressed by Rev. Phillips Brooks, which were held in Faneuil Hall last winter under the auspices of the Trinity Club, they have decided to try a similar work in another part of Boston. A petition signed by about fifty men and reading as follows...
...seriously hampered by the fact that all the reading done in the library must be during the day time. It is a lamentable fact that from some petty fear of a fire breaking out and destroying the magnificent collection of books, the college authorities have neglected doing anything toward lighting the library during the night. The argument of fire might have had some force during the days when gas was the sole means of illuminating public buildings, but since the introduction of electricity, which has now become superior to gas, the argument falls to the ground. As the case stands...
...Undergraduate" of yesterday, he had better learn that such flippancy as his toward a graduate makes very poor reading for the college at large, besides being very impertinent and indicative of defective breeding...
...eight in number, and enroll as members more than three-fourths of the college. As the most able and most influential men are chosen for the societies, the remaining fourth are without influence in college, and the societies meet with no opposition. Contrary to expectation, the strongest influences toward morality and industry are exerted by these societies-lazy men are made to work for honors, and wild fellows made to be-have. Society spirit causes just enough rivalry to that extravagant estimate of classmates and class interests, which is produced by class spirit; while this on the other hand prevents...