Word: commands
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lead were not fitted either in physical qualifications or in their standing among the students for this particular kind of work. In several sections the cheering was weak and erratic because there was no one in front who had voice enough to make himself heard or personality enough to command respect. This year the enthusiasm which is being stored up here every day will break out in great confusion on the day of the game unless there are capable men to keep it in some sort of order. The men chosen to lead the cheering should be men with good...
...worthy to represent the university in a great athletic event and to eat at the same table with other members of the team, is worthy of indiscriminate treatment by a Cambridge tradesman. But when such a man can command the respect of all who know him, whose character has always been borne out by his conduct, he deserves the impartial treatment of the students themselves. We have little to say of a man who will deny this, We are glad that in Harvard there is a just appreciation of a person's worth. When an insult is offered...
...Harvard College Base Ball Club's receipts for 1892 aggregated $20,539. This fund will materially aid Harvard's athletics for 1893, there being a good balance at command despite an expense account of over $18,000. The question is, what made the expenditures so large? Cyclone pitchers and their hard-worked catchers doubtless came high in the college arena...
When turned sixty, with spirit broken and means wasted, Defoe gave evidence of his wonderful energy by writing his "Robinson Crusoe" In it is displayed his absolute command of the carpentry of nature, - his power of inventing circumstantial details which have an overwhelming sense of reality about them. His works have little humor about them, and lack sparkle, but they have always simplicity, sympathy, and this unquestionable air of truth...
...fact who, in the opinion of the judges at the coming competitive debate, are not included in the list of the best twelve speakers. Yet if debating is to be put on a popular footing here in Harvard, the character of the debates must be such as to command respect. To do this the standard of the Union needed to be raised; not only that but the Union needed thorough reorganization. We would gladly see the whole university take an active interest in debating and public speaking. But the interest cannot be effectively aroused merely by increasing membership with...