Word: rather
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Some of the rules laid down seem to us rather calculated to discourage the trio in athletics. The uniform of the association, for instance, presents some difficulties to gentlemen not accustomed to protean changes in the circus-ring. The accomplished Mr. Robinson, who wore some fourteen waistcoats and any number of unmentionables, would perhaps be equal to the feat of wearing at one and the same time knee-breeches, trunks, and drawers, but an ordinary mortal, who has hitherto contented himself with two thicknesses of nether integuments, would find the garments so liberally provided by the association an embarras...
...were conclusive against the President. The writer of this article boldly claims that the present scholarships are not charities. If it can be shown that they are not, there is nothing more to be said; but it is so plain that they are that even President Eliot has rather given up this line of argument. As long as the Catalogue says, "None but those who need assistance are expected to apply," it will be hard to convince the average intelligence that money given in so-called scholarships is not a charity. The arguments of "T." on this point are somewhat...
...required to employ them, if they chose to employ anybody, to make fires, black boots, etc. We regret to learn that this system is to be extended next year to all the College buildings. The scouts are entirely inoffensive, as far as we can see, and it seems rather hard to turn away men some of whom have been around the College for more than twenty years. The chances are ten to one that any man employed by the College will be inefficient in the performance of his duties. Students will be obliged to hire a man over whom they...
...receivers of scholarships that I speak. I have no sympathy to waste on any one of those who considers the aid given him an alms, or its acceptance a humiliation. The President's words on this subject were well chosen and directly to the point. My purpose is rather to deny that money given in scholarships is in any sense a charity, and to denounce in the strongest terms any attempt by undergraduate or outsider to arouse or increase that notion. It is a false one, wholly unworthy of the men who advance it. For what was the purpose...
...stopped at the new Gymnasium, and entered the office. The Father of the Rifle-Corps was gone, and his chair was occupied by a little man in full evening-dress. "Are you the superintendent?" I inquired. "No, sir; I am the professor of dancing." Rather startled, I asked if I could see the building. He answered in the affirmative, and led the way into the large hall. I looked in vain for the apparatus. The floor was carefully waxed, and around the walls were sofas and chairs. At the northern end of the hall was a platform, upon which were...