Word: impression
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long tables, - one for each crew, - and leading out from here is the kitchen, where an enormous negro provides the meals. The other rooms on the ground floor are all used as bed-rooms, two men occupying each. Upstairs there are a number of other sleeping apartments, which impress one as being rather too small for comfort. In front of the house there is a flag-pole, upon which waves the Columbia blue and white, and near this is a little summer house, where the men usually sit in the evening...
...freshman nine play at Exeter to-day. We have already endeavored to impress upon the minds of the members of the nine that the fact that a man wears the crimson often does not suffice to assure him the victory. Hard work and university pride, however, ought so to nerve each player in his work to-day that success will be certain. Each man may rest assured that the eyes of the whole college are upon him, and will gladly greet in each case work that is only befitting a wearer as well of the university as of the freshman...
...view of the recent trouble in the library, we wish to say that the library officials have great trouble in keeping the books in their proper places. Now that the examinations are so close at hand, it is not out of place to impress upon all the necessity of returning all reference books after use, to their places as soon as possible. A very little delay in each case will suffice to put many men to a great inconvenience. We have been informed that in consequence of the dimensions to which, during examination periods, this abuse has grown the management...
...will also hear with mingled feelings of joy and sorrow of the man who has made his mark in the world, and of the man who has been forced to abandon the profession and step down into the lower rank of a merchant. All these statements cannot fail to impress themselves upon the student's mind; he will carry the thoughts of the speaker home with him and will endeavor, as far as he sees fit, to heed his advice. And so it is in all the other lectures the student attends. They are all composed of the element thoughts...
...other hand, to dilute and dampen the service until it loses the impress of every belief and of every tradition, so that it may offend no prejudices, is a sure way of making it a mockery; the studied reserve, the conscious insufficiency of such a service is too notorious to be pointed out. In our day, to make a religion fit for all, is to make one fit for nobody. The prayers, then, should feed the craving for worship which some yet feel; they should have a meaning. But since they cannot possibly have one meaning for all, let only...