Word: turned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...signs are true there promises to be abundance of material. The number of candidates should not deter any one from trying, however, for in a month's practice the choice of players will be very difficult, and often certain points in a new player will turn the decision in his favor. Beyond the number of candidates it is hoped and expected that a large number will show their interest in the eleven and its work by appearing on the field daily to encourage the players. Do not let any of the team have occasion to complain of any lack...
...fact is that the mass of pupils in any school are not particularly clever nor physically strong. But they, too, have their place to fill in the world; and if they work faithfully at school to fit themselves to fill it, it is unjust and cruel to turn them out into it at the beginning of their career with a sense of defeat because Nature did not endow them as highly as a few of their brethren. The Tribune has called the attention of colleges and teachers to this increasing and fatal error. It only echoes the opinion of parents...
...evils of speculation have been so often discussed as to need no further comment from us. It is for the interest not only of the graduating class, but also of the undergraduates, who will in their turn profit by the successful establishment of a good precedent, to make 83's class day as perfect as possible. We rely, therefore, on their hearty co-operation in our efforts to restrict tickets to seniors and their friends...
...that we should wear ourselves out by a long grind in the evening after the labors of the day. Those who accept these little favors in the kindly spirit in which they are offered will indeed be greatly benefited thereby, but, unfortunately, there are a few misguided individuals who turn a deaf ear to these pleasing distractions and take no relaxation from their grind. Such students cannot claim our sympathy - a man so devoted to work as not to appreciate such disinterested generosity is a poor, senseless being who deserves the contempt of all good people...
...study of Commercial Law, though lectures were still given on these subjects. The invention of printing also gave an impetus to learning, through the study of cheap books instead of valuable manuscripts. Little by little, the university lecturers made way for the "fellows," and these have, in their turn, made way for the present tutors of Oxford and Cambridge...