Word: warns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Shortly after three o'clock the bell was struck to warn the contestants in the one-mile running race to get ready, and they shortly afterwards appeared on the field and took their positions on the course in the following order, number one being on the inside: J. Holmes, '79 (1), H. W. Cushing, '77 (2), L. Cushing, '79 (3), C. G. James, '79 (4). On the firing of the pistol they started, and Mr. H. W. Cushing took the lead, followed by Messrs. James, L. Cushing, and Holmes, in the order named. The first quarter was made...
...clip the following from the Tyro, and, in return, warn the fair editors to beware. Such poems are terribly disillusive, particularly when coming from the mouths of the fair muses themselves; even though it be true that, with women, wie an jeder schlechten Waare, die Aussenseite mit falschem. Schimmer uberzogen ist: immer verbirgt sich was leidet hingegen was Jeder an Prunk und Glanz erschwingen kann tragt sie zur Schau, - for we hate to be impolite in the vernacular...
Despite, however, these arguments in support of Harvard's wish to secede, some of the graduates, and a few newspapers, warn Harvard against leaving the Association because of the "odium" which she will certainly incur by such a course. Fair Harvard will be dishonored, for-sooth, if a few penny-a-liners, through dearth of news, choose to call her motives of action base; Harvard will lose men's esteem, should she acknowledge her real feelings and cast aside all shuffling and timidity; Harvard, indeed, the oldest and largest university in the land, whose children hold - and have always held...
...this year will not be repeated by succeeding classes unless the issue proves that better officers, and therefore a more successful Class Day, are possible under the new system than under the selfish wire-pulling which used to be thought necessary. We hope that it is unnecessary to warn Seniors that in their caucuses each body should be guided by a wise spirit of forbearance from taking undue advantage of its embracing a majority of the class, or from discontent if its members are too small to entitle it to the lion's share. It must be remembered that...
...that this conclusion is unfair may justify us as undergraduates in defending our Alma Mater against an accusation in which some of our College rulers have joined; and as visiting committees of the Overseers have just been formed, we hope that it will not seem impertinent in us to warn them that more work may be done than is at first evident. We are only giving our own observations as to the quantity of writing that is done by the students and the aid that is given them in improvement, while our instructors and the College papers can best testify...