Word: answers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reported that the managers of the freshman crew have not yet answered the challenge of the Yale freshmen to a race next June. The challenge was received fully two months ago, and the question as to its acceptance was thoroughly discussed at the time. It is greatly to be regretted that the matter has not been definitely settled. Yale should be notified as soon as possible as she will wish to make arrangements for a race with some other college in case Harvard refuses to row. The Yale News complains editorially of the delay. The complaint is a just...
...thirty-four men who made no answer to the enquiries of the committee on athletics last spring received an average mark for the year 1887-88. calculated at 64.1 per cent. Those who set themselves down in the circular as taking no exercise, 14 in number, had an average of 67.8 per cent.; and the forty-four men who had attended no intercollegiate contests in Cambridge had a mark of 74.9 per cent. The records from which these marks were computed were incomplete, but the averages are probably almost correct for the year...
...bathroom waiting sometimes as long as a quarter of an hour to get a chance to use the shower-bath. During the winter months the gymnasium is used much more than at the other seasons of the year, and while during the spring and fall the shower-bath may answer all purposes, it certainly does not now. The room ought to be enlarged, or the addition of a shower bath built on the rear of the gymnasium, else it will practically be impossible to bathe between five and half-past five in the afternoons without getting out of all patience...
...offered a prayer, after which the choir sang the anthem "A bide with us," by Whitney. The address was made by Rev. William Lawrence. The speaker read from the Bible the account of Peter's attempt to persuade his Master not to go to Jerusalem and of Christ's answer to the tempter. Peter, the speaker said, had been the first to realize the meaning of the Saviour's mission, but when the time came for self-denial and for action the disciple hesitated. So in the world to-day, men of every station have their ideals, but when they...
...senior class of the University of Toronto is endeavoring to form an organization which shall exist after graduation, an entirely new departure for this university. Circulars have been sent to the secretaries of the senior classes of the more prominent colleges in the United States. The answer sent by Mr. Ropes, secretary of '89, was printed in the last issue of their college paper, the Varsity...