Word: use
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pair of goal posts for the use of the lacrosse men has been painted upon the eastern wall of the gymnasium cage...
...year we have heard the same complaint and the same remedy suggested. The matter is already in the hands of the class day committee, and the evil could be stopped at once if the proper measures were adopted. Where each senior is allowed more tickets than he can possibly use among his more immediate friends, it is natural that he should be led to dispose of them recklessly rather than that they should be unused. If a less number of yard tickets were allowed to each senior, and if each extra ticket purchased should be placed at a higher price...
...Cambridge Tribune indulges in a complaint against Harvard athletes for using North Avenue as a running track. "Squads of them," says the Tribune, "frequently monopolize the sidewalk, crowding to one side persons who happens to be in the way as they rush past. Sometimes they select the street, and frighten horses as they run by them, clad in airy gymnasium costume. This use of a principal street as a training ground is getting to be an intolerable nuisance, and should be stopped." Of course, we regret very much that Harvard men should be the cause of an "intolerable nuisance." although...
This plan is already, with some notifications, in use at the German universities, though there theses are required not oftener than twice a year; but this seems unadvisable at Harvard, because the men in the two lower classes at any rate have not sufficient command over the English language, nor training in the use thereof, to enable them to produce a finished piece of work of the requisite length. Besides, if each theses were required only twice a year, there would be altogether too much of what is now the customary thing, namely, everything being left to the last minute...
...question but that in the majority of cases, the heart of the constant smoker has lost in muscular strength. For safety, a smoker should take plenty of exercise in the open air, and do his smoking in moderation after meals. Do not smoke on an empty stomach, or use very strong tobacco, or an old foul pipe. By the term hypertrophy of the heart is meant an increase in the size and weight of the organ, due to the development of some one of the elements of its walls. The term is generally used of muscular development only. Almost...