Word: boundingly
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Whatever a Senior may think as to the little benefit he is likely to receive from a certain recitation, or whatever his theory of voluntary recitations by which he may regard the average attendance as in no sense indicative of the success of the plan, he is bound to remember that the authorities, having no other obvious criterion, have decided that attendance is to be held the proof and guaranty of the system...
...Association; she who invited two or three neighboring colleges to row at Springfield cannot honorably leave the Association, even when it has trebled in numbers, and when the course is no longer in New England. That is to say, a few gentlemen of the class of '71 have bound Harvard irretrievably for an indefinite time to come, or at least until chance shall give the victory to some crew as good as those she has sent for the last two years, since she can hardly expect to send better ones than these. "And, after all, it is strange that Harvard...
...course I felt in duty bound...
...seems as though a memorial window, to be literally a class window, ought to be paid for by subscription from every member in the class which erects it, and for this reason the subscription books ought to be opened while the class is yet in college, and the members bound together; otherwise, if the subject is not proposed until after graduation, when the class has separated, the expense of a window will fall upon a comparatively small number, and there will probably be a large number who, through ignorance of the project, will fail to contribute what they otherwise would...
...trip on an Indian steamer is almost an education in itself; one sees on board representatives of every race and almost of every country. The crew were Indians shipped at Bombay; they did not understand a word of English, except the commands on board ship. Their turbans were bound to their heads with red sashes, and they presented a very picturesque appearance as they hauled in on the ropes, keeping time with a peculiar melody of their own. Their helmsmen were Manilla men, and the ship's carpenters, etc., Chinamen...