Word: usual
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fall meeting of the Williams Athletic Association was more successful than usual. The winners of the Pig Back Race (25 yards) made the remarkable time of 13 1/2 seconds. S. H. Reed, '78, came off victorious in the Potato Race (twenty potatoes, five feet apart). His time was 21 minutes, 51 seconds...
...should not use this as much as possible for our own good. To come to the point, a large number of us want to go to New York (at Thanksgiving, for example) within a train or two of each other. We buy our tickets, one by one, at the usual rate, instead of clubbing together and getting the lower rates which competing roads are always willing to grant to a large number. Many other colleges do this for their students, and, so long as our authorities have not taken the trouble, why should we not do so ourselves? The foot...
...MEETING of the Boat Club was held last evening in Holden Chapel. The attendance was not large, and the exercises were marked by the usual unwillingness to give public expression to individual opinion on matters where it is most needed and most sought...
...Fall Races take place at two o'clock tomorrow, over the Union course. Efforts will be made to avoid all delays, and probably it will be easy for the same person to see the races and match between Yale and Tufts. Besides the usual prizes of goblets and mugs for the members of the winning crews in both races, the Graduates' Cup is to be rowed for by the sixes. This cup is now on exhibition in one of the windows under Holyoke House. The names of the victorious six will be handed down to posterity on the parchment which...
...chum and I were sitting on the hearth-rug warming our feet. We had been sitting there with the light out for some time, talking about house-breaking. I was urging that it was a safe and lucrative occupation; he had taken the opposite ground, and, as usual, was having rather the best...