Word: branch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...corners and in doorways, and cards and bills are thrust into our faces. Complimentary tickets are at our plates at meals. Samples from new newspapers to "choice cigarettes" are put into our hands. Scarcely a day passes that we are not in some way reminded of some branch or other, small and great, of Cambridge or Boston business. Our mails are, perhaps, nearly doubled. The man with few correspondents or perhaps almost none at all is grateful for even this poor substitute. At least, his letter-slide is kept from resting...
...would receive the most benefit from the study and practice derived from a thorough course in elocution, show the least inclination for such study. It is only by awakening a popular interest and enthusiasm in oratory that it can be brought home properly to the students who neglect this branch of study. They can be induced to turn their attention to it. The Shakespeare club would be well calculated to arouse an interest among the students and bring before all in a very interesting, manner the power of properly applied oratory. While an Inter-Collegiate Oratorical Association would be surrounded...
...never desert a custom without protest. We must bear in mind, however, that the animosity necessary for a contest between the two lower classes no longer exists; generous rivalry has taken its place. Why, then keep up the form of a rush, if the spirit is gone? If a branch of a tree is dead, we lop it off. For the same reason, a rush for which none of the participants seem very anxious, should be given...
...Glee Club, Pierian Sodality (instrumental club), or brass band; and those whose tastes incline to literary work ought to try for one of the college papers. We hope no member of '88 will fail, either from indifference or diffidence, to do his part in every organized branch of college activity and college life that is open to him. There is much to learn, during the four years here, that no book, or lecture, or instructor can teach. It is a miniature world which is to prepare men for the greater world outside, and if one holds aloof now from these...
Every member of the freshman class who weighs one hundred and forty-five pounds or more and is in sound health ought to consider himself entitled to a seat in the boat. If '88 is going to support her captain, and wishes to meet with success in this branch of athletics it seems to me that there should be at least fifty candidates at the captain's room tonight...