Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Freshmen should be on the alert against fraudulent peddlers who are beginning to swarm about the buildings...
...taint of jockeying attaches to what the college boys do. There is every motive for extreme effort, and public opinion would discountenance every victory by a trick. This trait of disinterested honesty gives a special interest to expressions of political opinion by college men. Moreover, as they are alert in forming opinions, an idea of what the progresive intelligence of the country thinks on current topics can best be gathered, short of the verdict of the polls, by knowing what the students think. Thus, if this year's college statistics be compared with those of earlier years, it is obvious...
...trap, and, while on his way to the railroad station, was seized by some freshman and driven seven or eight miles into the country, and there left to get back as best he could. The freshmen are elated at the success of this manoeuvre, and are on the alert for the next step of the sophomores...
...second of the Saturday afternoon athletic contests at Harvard last week, only two contestants appeared for the shot and pole-vault."- Yale News. Yale men are on the alert for any seeming indifference in our athletics...
...ball. The men become thoroughly accustomed to their positions, learn to work well together, and know just how much confidence to place in each other. The result is that playing becomes a kind of second nature to them; they are necessarily quicker in their movement, and more on the alert to pounce right down on their prey without stopping to think about...