Word: possession
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...every day will break out in great confusion on the day of the game unless there are capable men to keep it in some sort of order. The men chosen to lead the cheering should be men with good voices whose records here at college have shown them to possess the qualities of natural leadership. Unless they have the respect of the students in the sections no concerted cheering can be expected. And this is an all important point, for good cheering can be a very substantial aid in winning a game, and poor cheering, expressive...
...this ignorance affected only the men who possess it the evil would not be so great, but the matter does not stop there. In a man's intercourse with the outside world he must talk about his college life, and how can he talk intelligently if he does not know something of all the various phases of the life and of the equipment of the college? Every man in the University stands for the University and people will judge of the institution from the men who compose it. The man who is ignorant of any legitimate phase of the life...
...known subjects by able writers. The editor was great, the reporter insignificant. Today, however, people are not ready to follow other men's opinions; their one desire is for the news and for all of it. There are not more than four editorial writers in the country whose writings possess wide and strong influence...
...racing, recalls the old fable of the mountain that brought forth a mouse, but it is hard to say what a month or even a week may show. The passage of some really satisfactory measure would be of the greatest service, not only to the actual states that would possess them, but as setting an example to the entire country. The plague - for it amounts to nothing less - of unrestricted racing must be checked...
Manliness is a quality that every lad longs to possess; it is his aspiration to be manly. And as he gets into school, he there tries to exemplify his conception of the word. But unfortunately he often gets a wrong idea, and comes to think it manly to frequent the bar-room, or gambling places. It is an evil that is common to most men at certain stages of their lives, an evil for which society is responsible. A man's idea will conform not to what he ought to be, but to what he is allowed...