Word: amid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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NONE of us are likely amid the pleasures of Class Day to forget the crews at New London, or the coachers who are fitting them for the final struggle with Yale. Not too much credit can be given to Ex Captain Perkins for his untiring efforts under the most adverse circumstances. And we all know with how much satisfaction the college received the news that Harry Keyes was at New London to help in the final days of preparation. If after all the discouragements in rowing this year, victory comes as a superb triumph against odds, the whole University cannot...
...shattered condition of the household finances caused De Quincey to awake from his opium habit in which he languished from 1817 to 1821. He was a constant contributer to the different English magazines and amid hopeless confusion, he carried on his literary work. The publication of his book on the Confessions of an English Opium Eater was a startling revelation to the literary people of the world. He lived by his pen for fifty years and when his magazine articles were collected they filled fifty volumes. All these articles are characterized by individuality, humor, imagination and the evident results...
...Earle '94, E. H. Clark '96, G. L. Collins '96, A. L. Jackson '95, F. H. Bartlett '96. In the first heat Earle won with Clark second; in the second heat Jackson won with Bartlett second. These four men were the contestants in the final heat which was won amid a good deal of excitement by Jackson in 49 seconds. Clark secured second prize...
...bounds as C. Brewer '96, and S. Scoville of Yale toed the mark, Scoville having the pole. Hardly had the pistol sounded when Brewer like a flash bounded ahead and at the end of the first lap had distanced his man by over 15 feet. In the second lap amid wild cheering Brewer kept leaving Scoville further and further behind until at the end of his last lap Harvard was over 20 yards in the lead. N. H. Bingham '93 and G. S. French, Yale, were the next pair. Bingham ran in magnificent form and easily got away from French...
...given to divine inspection. But we have grown out of these old ideas. We realize that man can be as truly religious in the counting room as in the prayer-meeting, that he is as much in God's service while holding the throttle of a mighty engine as amid the quiet and seclusion of the sanctuary. All things are goods, the +++ comes from their perverted use. +++ participating in all of this +++ work and pleasures, with a mind +++ with the goodness of it, all we are truly tending Godward...