Word: towardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...graduate of the class of '84, has given Prof. John Williams White a thousand dollars toward the fitting up of his rooms in Sever to illustrate the Greek courses...
...strong rival, to the existing Yale Gun Club. The new sportsman's club starts with a good membership, and under energetic management. It has already secured a complete outfit for shooting, including traps for shotgun, and butts for rifle practice. What has our own club done toward establishing rifle practice this year? Early last spring, if we are not mistaken, some attempts were made to arrange a match between the two colleges, but the Yale club, in response to the propositions made, replied very justly that it was then too late in the season to get a team into anything...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- It is a significant fact that ever since the institution of the Annex, the tendency of our learned Professors has been toward the "more tender" sports, notably tennis (which two play, with rests and things). At the same time their policy has been to discourage those games which develop and exercise the manly powers, strength, endurance, pluck and skill. The natural inference is, that the influence of these maidens upon the faculty is demoralizing, effeminating and mollifying (I use the word in its first meaning) in the extreme. Therefore Messrs. Editors, despite a chivalric regard...
...their whole lives after graduation. They are represented by the graduate who declared that in four years he had heard enough prayers and sermons to last a lifetime, and that he would never again put his head inside a church. Would it not be better to incline such students toward religious observances by example and persuasion than to repel them by compulsion...
...buildings. The swimming tank which so many Harvard men have longed for in Cambridge is here provided by civil authority for the benefit of the Tufts men. As we walk about the reservoir, let us take in the view. Look down into the valley of the Mystic, look beyond toward the Middlesex Fells, look back to old Cambridge and see the lofty tower of Memorial Hall looming above everything else. When it is once seen, we feel at home. What a grand old landmark it is! There are few places in the neighborhood of Cambridge from which...