Word: commands
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...University, and therefore have a perfect right to obtain their meals at Memorial. But have a certain number of them a right to impose upon their table companions their arguments, reaching nearly to quarrels sometimes, and their discussions, carried on in a high voice, so high as to command the attention of all those sitting at their table and even of many who sit at neighboring tables? Their language, and also their subjects for discussion, are often objectionable to many who sit near them...
...will be able to profit by his services. We believe that positive advantage will be derived from this new experiment; for whatever may be the result, it is evidence of a desire on the part of the College government to widen the scope of the University curriculum, which must command the approval, not only of Harvard students, but of all true friends of education throughout the country...
...divest myself of the military habits formed by four years of arduous service, I continued to follow the occupation for which I was best adapted by nature and most familiar by practice. But here I must pause, for with the remembrance of the Monday night drill, the words of command and battle struggle for utterance. Yes, gentlemen, let the historian chronicle my exploits in war if he will; let the poet sing them in paeans of martial melody: but do you, while memory keeps her tablet green, treasure me in your hearts as the FOUNDER OF THE HARVARD RIFLE CORPS...
...past fourteen years done much, under the able leadership of the devoted Dr. Hitchcock, to improve the physical (and with it the moral) well being of the college students; but a man single-handed, with no very good gymnasium or apparatus, and without the pecuniary resources Harvard can command, cannot do what might easily be done in the Hemenway Gymnasium, if only the authorities might be induced to take the wise course...
...idea of Handicaps were carried out and made a fact instead of an idea, it would serve as a great stimulant to athletics. Such races held, say biweekly on Friday afternoons, when there is nothing going on, and for cups of moderate value, would command a large entry, and men who contested each time would soon run themselves into first-class condition, and render the time made at the Spring and Fall Meetings creditable to themselves and to the College. As matters now stand, one or two men are regarded as invincible, simply because they train somewhat, and have speed...