Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...impossible to conceive how, in the present nature of things, making a noise can be avoided. All students do not possess Carker-like proclivities, and we may expect that noises will continue to be made. The faith of those who believe snowballs will not be thrown in the Yard this winter will be much weakened at the first snowstorm...
...having books belonging to the Institute Library is requested to return them immediately, as the Library is being rearranged and catalogued. It will shortly be thrown open to members at the new rooms in Holyoke House...
...careful study of Freshmen is a most interesting employment; instructive, too, if one be willing to learn truths not always agreeable. A hundred and fifty or two hundred young men and boys, strangers to each other and dissimilar in taste and habit, are thrown together toward the last of September; long before the middle of October, through some mysterious chemical reaction, the Freshman class has begun to be. Lurker and Nightoil and I' Evy still vegetate as individuals, but each has a more important and engrossing existence; he is a Freshman. An undefinable Freshmanhood has obscured all the rest...
...play in the grand rush and machine-like movement of the actual race. What they must have felt we can hardly realize. For months all their thoughts, actions, and even being had been directed to this one moment; a slight mistake now and the results of those months are thrown away. The thousands who were watching them were in full sympathy, as was indicated by the deep stillness which prevailed. The suspense was of but short duration, for, at 6 minutes past six, Mr. Brown, the starter, gave the expected "Are you ready? - go!" After a few strokes Harvard showed...
...rooms of the club will be again thrown open in May for their final exhibition of the year, to which cards of admission can readily be obtained from members, and it would well repay all interested in such matters to be present. With these few hints on a very comprehensive subject I must close, in the earnest hope, however, that the promising indications I have mentioned may not prove fallacious, but result in some new and glorious...