Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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While we hesitate to approach a question of such moment to the college as the "state of the yard," we feel that when each spring reminds us of a growing practice among the students detrimental to the appearance of the yard, some attention ought to be called to the matter. We refer to the custom of walking across the grass. Whenever there is a large plot of grass it is almost certain to be marred by a long winding path, which remains year after year, despite the efforts of the college constabulary to obliterate it. Fertilizers and non-fertilizers have...
...close, and with to-day a term begins, that is perhaps the most interesting and active of the entire academic year. With tennis, boating, base-ball, lacrosse and cricket to occupy time, attention and money, to say nothing of the minor things that necessarily present themselves at the approach of annual examinations and the close of a college year, the student at Cambridge lives a very busy life from April to June. That during the present term his life is also to be specially interesting is not to be doubted. He watches the athletic teams with interest and hope...
...oldest spectator. The tug-of-war alone was less interesting than last year, owing to the absolute certainty which prevailed as to the winners of the first two meetings and the unfortunate accident which deprived '86 of her regular anchor at the third, there was not the least approach to enthusiasm over any of the contests...
Students at Johns Hopkins have been making calculations on the approach of the comet, discovered by Farby, which is expected to reach its greatest brilliancy about...
...imposition of a theme within three days of the beginning of recitations after the Christmas recess, when they had been obliged to hand one in but a few days before the close of recitations for that recess. They bore this trial without grumbling; but now, as the mid-years approach, it is suggested that the same quick succession is to occur again. "An ounce of prevention, etc." is an old saying, but a very trenchant one; and we echo the wishes of all those who write sophomore themes when we beg that a respite of a week at least...