Word: use
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...life, a word of description is pertinent. It is a plain piece of mechanism, devoid of much ornamentation. It is revered and prized, not so much for its intrinsic value as for the memories which cluster around it, and are, upon auspicious occasions, squeezed out of it! The material used in its construction is chiefly pine board, relieved at its further extremity by two hinges of brass, added more for practical use than for external embelishment. Upon its face are various dates of presentation, together with the mottoes of the classes who have been its fortunate reciepients; upon its reverse...
...Yale has lost the championship; there is little use of trying to conceal this fact. We make this apparently premature statement for the reason that we think it impossible for both Brown and Yale to beat Harvard; both of which things 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...
Students who wish to obtain all the French and German books needed in any given course can obtain them through the society by putting in a general order to that effect. The society will learn from the instructors the books that will be used in the courses, and when they will be needed and will procure them in pursuance of the general orders, in time for use. If students wish to have not only the books required in a course, but also those recommended, they must specially state that they order recommended books. If nothing to the contrary appears, orders...
...rank lists. Such men appear wonders to their less favored classmates, who magnify into cleverness what is only the result of system. Yes, system applies as much to study as to business, or in fact any other vocation where time and orain must be limited in their use. Those exceptions in the eyes of their fellow students are not any more brilliantly endowed mentally than the rest, but they have one great superiority, that of knowing when and how to study. They portion out a certain amount of time each day to study and come what may, be it sport...
Students who wish to obtain all the French and German books needed in any given course can obtain them through the society by putting in a general order to that effect. The society will learn from the instuctors the books that will be used in the courses, and when they will be needed and will procure them in pursuance of the general orders, in time for use. If students wish to have not only the books required in a course, but also those recommended, they must specially state that they order recommended books. If nothing to the contrary appears, orders...