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...support had brought on severe headaches. A few weeks before commencement he became violently insane and died before his class graduated. My own room-mate in his efforts to retain his scholarship neglected exercise and all relaxation. During his senior year he was obliged to leave college in a vain attempt to escape consumption...
...injustice which is done the body of undergraduates by the action of the Faculty prohibiting the nine from playing with professionals, has often aroused indignation in the past. Numerous attempts have been made by the students to obtain the rescindment of the obnoxious regulations, but all have been in vain. Hitherto, attempts have been confined to undergraduates; no concerted action has ever been taken by the Alumni of the University. It is of especial credit to the Alumni that the present movement was instituted, not at the instigation or by request of the undergraduates, but among themselves. Coming from...
Williams tried in vain to secure Madden, Boston's pitcher, as a coach for its nine...
...bowl's life. For now the Meds had come and were doing their best to take the bowl to Medical Hall. When the college men saw that the Meds were gaining steadily they combined their forces. With united vigor they hurled themselves against the advancing phalanx. But in vain! On and on it moved until the bottom of the stone steps leading to Medical Hall had been reached. Here the hottest fighting of the day was done. The college men collected their forces at the top of the embankment and charged from above, creating great slaughter among medical hats...
...very hard to say no to such an appeal, and it costs me a struggle to say it. I can scarce find in my vocabulary a negative soft enough and hesitating enough for the occasion. Were I living in Cambridge I should search in vain for any such. But so far away as I am, at my age too (who am on the edge of my seventieth year) and with the many duties that just now demand my instant and exclusive attention-for it is high time I should be putting my house in order-I feel that...