Word: towardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first bent our steps toward the gymnasium, and on entering found it well filled with students, some exercising and some looking on. Several were quite expert, and we saw some difficult feats of strength and agility. Growing tired we betook ourselves to a seat, and scanned anxiously the various gentlemen about...
...would have to happen even to tie Harvard for first place. We shall try to bear our defeat as best we can. It was bound to come some day, as people say of Hanlan. There are many circumstances which lead us to think that fortune is not favorably inclined toward us this year. She began last fall and has shown her displeasure more or less all the time since. All our teams have suffered, but the ball nine most of all. Two of the best players were obliged to give up the game, and our pitcher has been disabled...
...Already the thoughts of college men are directed earnestly toward the races which takes place next month between Harvard and Columbia, and Harvard and Yale. Good reports come from all the crews; but none seem to be in better condition than the 'Varsity Eight of Columbia. They are an especially fine lot of young fellows in appearance, and their friends will be grieviously disappointed if they do not give a good account of themselves in their contest against Harvard-so good, indeed, that Harvard will be left far behind. Their chances for victory are more than fair, as will...
...entrusted with power there is no tendency to abuse it: on the contrary they take pride in showing themselves worthy of the trust reposed in them. Why should not such be the case at Harvard, the college above all others which should stand at the head in this movement toward a liberalizing of college government...
...membership, unless they see the society is an earnest and interested body of workers, reaping decided advantages from the opportunities for co-operation and mutual benefit which such a society should afford in its particular department. During the year just passed, we have endeavored to take the first steps toward placing the society in this ideal position. May the future show that our labers for this end have not been quite in vain...