Word: altering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Next year, I suppose, there will be more scholarships assigned than heretofore; but that does not alter the necessity of extreme care in their distribution. Pecuniary aid is intended for "meritorious students in needy circumstances"; let the man who keeps expensive apartments or spends money freely on clubs, sports, etc., ask himself conscientiously if he deserves such aid, when some of his classmates whose records entitle them to it, have to scrape along on a sum perhaps half as large as that he spends...
...runs next, is thrown by Wagenhurst. Yale loses ten yards to keep the ball and Morrison carries it to Princeton's twenty-five yard line and Beecher to her ten yard line. The rest of the half is taken up in Yale's trying to push the ball over. Alter three downs, Beecher runs back with the ball ten yards and so keeps it. Just before time is called Yale loses the ball and Princeton has it at her twenty-five yard line. Score, nothing...
...question as to how that success may best be advanced. It is every man's duty to take part in the procession, It is a shame that the two upper classes are the most lax in signing, - the two classes which are the legitimate leaders. No one student can alter the success new assured, but every additional name lends new weight and influence...
...position - we are disposed to think that, while the struggle will be centered between Harvard, Princeton and Yale, their relative standing at the end of the year will be in the above order. A very possible contingency, however, such as a sprained arm or a broken finger might materially alter the result. - Outing for April...
...notably weak spots of the yard is that beautiful, sloping, inclined, hollowedout, well watered and ever-mud-adorned stretch of path from Weld to the library. We will not claim that we have here a right to use the rather sweeping term, "Scylla and Charybdis," but that does not alter the fact that a wet day causes this particular piece of walk to resemble closely the famous bog in which the victim sank deeper the more he struggled. If the college could furnish to the passer bathing suits, or even a raft, the trouble would be obviated...