Word: wired
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...older. Every college man should be prepared to take his share of the work bravely, for, having the best education, college men ought not take positions in the rear and allow themselves to be led in politics by men who are their inferiors except in their ability for "wire-pulling" and "caucus packing...
...lockers in the gymnasium are so very small that their contents can but be in utter confusion. One student has helped matters by placing a shelf across the upper part of his locker, to hold his sponge, brush and comb, etc. The shelf is of wire netting, which allows a free circulation of the hot air. The expense of fitting all the lockers with such a shelf would be only a few cents each; in view of the great convenience resulting, it would seem that the authorities ought...
...your yesterday's editorial, you allude to the wire-pulling methods of the faculty. That phrase, I think, is the proper one with which to characterize their present action in regard to the petition from the executive officers of our different athletic associations, which is now before them. The faculty earnestly wish that this petition should not be made public. For, say they, we will lose all hopes of coercing Yale, if it should be made public. Is not Yale entitled to the knowledge of the true state of feeling at Harvard? How then shall we characterize the action...
...believe that the measure was forced through the faculty meeting without giving the members of that body a sufficient chance for discussion or any chance to learn what the students, graduates and others interested in Harvard had to say upon the subject. This savors too much of political wire-pulling and gag law methods, and hardly reflects credit on those having the matter directly in charge before and at the meeting. Therefore, for these reasons, in the first place, that the present action was too hasty and that the students were not consulted, we think that the matter...
...Dwight three out of five sets, with a vantage set, his score being 6-2, 6-0, 9-7. He takes the Horsman trophy, a diamond studded racket and a cup offered by the Casino, and a bronze plaque with a representation of a tennis court done in silver wire...