Word: wake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ranked entirely according to social standing. Such rank-lists of the classes were posted in the buttery at the beginning of the freshman year and were waited for expectantly. Yale was the first to abolish this vicious system of ranking for that of alphabetical order. Harvard followed in her wake five years later...
...will be glad to leave Cambridge, not only because we shall be free from study for a short time, but also because we shall perhaps go to the lands where the thermometer does not jump frantically from forty degrees below zero in six hours; where one can wake up in the morning without the dread of finding the ground covered with ten inches of snow which better experience has taught, will be as many inches of slush at night; where one can walk confidently from place to place on civilized walks, and not have to step gingerly along, expecting each...
...moment the sound thereof reaches the precise proctor's ear, and woe betide the man who by some ill fate occupies a room directly over the proctor. But what a contrast to this is presented where any body of the students, notably a certain sophomore society, may with impunity wake the echoes of the Yard absolutely at any hour of the night with the joyful news of newly elected members or the memories of an evening brawl. Surely the absolute certainty of awakening everybody within the range of their discordant sounds, cries for correction of its cause more than...
...whole, the crew must be careful about their watermanship; must slow their slides and pay more attention to their work. Another fault, too, is that the men don't seem to have enough life and ambition; the crew should wake up and put more "go into...
...field; one which will cast in the shade the work of any previous freshman twelve. This cannot be done unless more men go out and practice. As it is at present there are scarcely more candidates than there are places to be filled. Eighty-nine should wake up and furnish a dozen or so more men to learn this attractive game and thus properly strengthen the twelve, and also furnish useful training for men who wish to play foot-ball in the autumn. Lacrosse and foot ball go hand in hand in the style of play and faculties called into...