Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opinion of Lord Bacon that the rays of the sun are reflected by a white body and absorbed by a black. But, despite these indications of nature and philosophy, we have all our reading matter in direct opposition to the suggestions of optical science. The human eye cannot long sustain the broad glare of a white surface without injury. People exposed for a long time to the glare of a sandy desert or a continuous stretch of snow are usually affected injuriously. The British soldiers in Egypt and Lieutenant Danenhower of the Jeannette expedition may be instanced as cases where...
Duels among the German students are not caused by personal enmity, but arranged by committees specially appointed by the several classes to look after this branch of athletic (?) sports. It is the duty of the class committee to produce a man who may sustain the honor of the class by proving himself the best swordsman in the university. The happy student who is chosen is often ignorant of his opponents names. He may refuse, if he will, but as it is considered a great honor to represent the class he seldom declines to fight. As class feeling runs high, duels...
...again in 1883 by challenging each of these universities, and neither of them accepting the challenge, it now challenges any college crew and announces that, if its challenge is not accepted, it will claim the championship of American college rowing, and call upon public opinion to sustain its claim. While it is about it, it might make its challenge a little broader so as to take in Oxford and Cambridge, and institutions of learning in the moon and other planets, so as to be able to claim the championship of the solar system, which is more honorable than a mere...
...aspiring university has called upon public sentiment to sustain them in their claims and we can do no better than refer them to the editorial taken from a leading paper for an idea of what the outside world thinks, which we print in another column...
...discuss the interference of the Harvard faculty in athletics was one of the most interesting of the year. The question for debate read, Resolved, "That the interference of the Harvrd faculty in athletics is justifiable." On the secret ballot on the merits of the question the faculty were sustained by a vote of 35 to 21. Mr. A. G. Webster, '85, then opened the debate in the affirmative, claiming that the game of foot-ball had degenerated greatly of late, and to sustain his position quoted from a New York newspaper in its account of the Harvard-Yale game...