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...faults were pointed out in a simple, straightforward way, we would accept the criticism gladly and would try to avoid such mistakes in future work, instead of feeling that he is the butt of the critic's jest. ENGLISH...
...Servitors, who are supported wholly or partly by the college funds. They were formerly required to wait at dinner on those of higher rank, and perform other menial services, besides being the butt of practical jokes. Their dress was similar to the Commoners, but less expensive...
...brutal and dangerous contest, informed the Captain of the Harvard eleven that the team could not be allowed to take part in any further inter-collegiate match games until substantial changes in the rules had been made. According to the rules then existing, a player could back, throttle, butt, trip up, tackle below the hips. or strike an opponent with closed fist three times before he was sent from the field...
...been nearer perfection than at the present day the views of the committee would receive the support of every right-minded man and would be welcomed. But athletics never have been ideal and never will be, and for a committee of the faculty of a university, as censors, to butt against a vast majority can do but little good...
...chapel choir is so apt to be the butt of ignorant criticism and ancient witticisms, that it is no more than fair to give it a little of the praise which it has so justly earned. Its performances during the last week or two have been especially creditable both to itself and to its leader. This excellence is the more to be commended when we consider the difficulty of singing well so early in the morning and in such a vicious temperature as that which always pervades Appleton Chapel. A great part of the increase in popularity of the present...