Word: departments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...speaker next dwelt on the severity of the tests to which men professedly devoted to total abstinence are sometimes put. Theses trials must be looked for by those who depart from the ordinary tenets of the age. As Emerson expressed it, "There has never yet been found an easy way to perform heroic conduct." The lecturer recommended Summer's advice to Stanton, "stick...
...rules, accidents within the first ten strokes are allowed for, and fouling is carefully guarded against, although the Inter-Collegiate rules give a chance for fouls by allowing boats to depart from their course. Such a permission is liable to cause trouble sooner or later. The Harvard and Yale boats are required to keep in a course no nearer than ten feet and no further than one hundred feet from the line of central buoys...
...account, and impose too great sacrifice upon the members of the crews. There is danger that our rowing interests here at home may fall under their own weight. Every one remarked the success in every desirable particular which attended the scratch races last fall. Let not the class races depart too far from that one extreme, and approach the other, where the exactions may be equal to those at tending a race with Yale or Columbia. To set the race early, at least four weeks before the final examinations begin, is the least the Boat Club should do. Rivalry between...
...rebellious boys and promised to shut out women from the institution's privileges. Commenting on this, the Springfield Republican says: "Such a course is weak and censurable. The offending professor might have been discharged if he was guilty of indecency, or the young women might have been allowed to depart if they were prurient; but to issue a wholesale order against womankind is a mean retreat before a parcel of boys...
...friends. Let us depart. We have heard enough. Let us withdraw while we are still wrapped in this nameless, holy balm, - this light and this sweetness...