Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...athletics, I think that they had better be given up for the present. It is absurd to suppose that a few men, no matter how efficient they may be, can bolster up athletics if there is not interest enough to make more than nineteen men enter. Do the men want more costly prizes? If they do, there must be an annual assessment. Do they want other events? If they do, and will kindly write word to that effect, their wishes shall be considered. But if at the spring meeting there are not more entries than there were this fall...
...going to the theatre, and do not care to dine in town, avoid all cars before half past seven, for the men who take these want to get to the theatre before the play begins, - a thing quite unendurable to any fellow of taste. You will meet more of your own style between half past seven and eight than at any other hour. The cars after this hour you will not, I hope, find it often necessary...
...only a Freshman, and you will please excuse my asking you absurd questions, but there are some things that I want to know. I know a Senior, and he comes from the same place that I do. I saw a good deal of him last summer, and he put me up to some dodges that will make me have a cold thing of the first ten - O, I forgot; I was n't to say anything about it. Among other things, he told me that Seniors had "voluntary recitations." I guess he meant that they did n't have...
...Dear me!" sighed the Freshman, "am I going to be hazed, after all? I thought the class of '80 did n't allow it." Then in the manliest voice possible he asked, "What do you want, Sophomore...
...Some, like the boat-clubs, die a lingering death for want of victims; others are kept alive by men who are too zealous to take-warning by the fate of others, or too blind to heed the smiles and sneers of their classmates. The prudent man will stand aside, and let others make martyrs of themselves. Farewell, Freshman. We have more to warn to-night. Remember the watch-word, Policy! Farewell...