Word: used
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...also, as we understand it, one of the principal features of the plan that graduates in Cambridge, whether temporarily or as residents, would make use of the club. Thus both graduates and undergraduates would be brought into occasional intercourse with each other and it would be fair to hope that a greater unity of feeling arising between them as Harvard men would strengthen their common attachment for the University...
...Future," "Imagination in Theology," in the Christian examiner; "The New Religion of Nature," in the Friend of Progress. He also published "The Parables: Stories From the Lips of the Teacher, Retold by a Disciple"; "Stories of the Patriarchs," books for children; a manual for Sunday school and home use; besides a translation of the Critical Essays of Renan...
...use a little of your space, I should like to make a suggestion. We are too much given to coddling our defeated athletes. This is because we are used to defeat, and take it as a matter of course. But it will never win a football match. We should make a decided difference between a victory and a defeat and in our attitude towards the players who contributed to each. There is altogether too much nonsense in the annual consolation that "they did the best they could," "they played a sandy, up-hill game," "they played like gentlemen, anyway...
...point which I thought I had made clear was this. When an instructor has such original views on the subject of marking, the work of men in his section must compare unfavorably with other work marked by teachers who have adopted the system generally in use at Harvard...
...Yale faculty has decided to strictly enforce the rule which prohibits Yale men from acting as "supes" at the theatres. They summoned a few prominent men from the various classes and asked them to use their influence to stop an amusement which they think is being overdone and has dangerous tendencies...