Word: ending
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...question of the change in the fiscal year was fully discussed for two meetings, and the change was thought to be most desirable in every way. In view of that change, the directors proposed that the fee be $1.50 from now till the end of the year. The board also allowed members to join from December to February 20, '84. for one dollar; a measure simply to obtain a few more members...
...management of the team, and other old players have avowed their intention of giving up the sport. One of them was heard to say that if the champion Yale was excluded, the contests would be reduced to walk over, and all interest and enthusiasm would be at an end. This is the general verdict at Princeton...
From a preliminary examination of the assets and liabilities of the society, the directors believe that the balance sheet at the end of the fiscal year will show an appreciable surplus. At the same time, the expenses during the past half-year have been heavy, partly on account of the cost of moving into the new quarters and fitting them up. Although the expenses during the coming half-year will not be so large as in that just passed, they will yet be considerable. No reduction in them can be made, consistently with the efficient performance of the necessary work...
Nearly every intercollegiate boat-race in this country has been won at the end of the third mile. The result has been a "procession" for the fourth mile, or a desperate attempt on the part of the defeated crew to retrieve themselves. The consequent tendency has been to lessen the interest in college boating, or to endanger the health of the participants from over-exertion and heart-strain. Therefore...
...end of every period of examination most students become filled with a spirit of exultation-shall we call it-which must be taken as the natural result of a release from the severe strain just passed through with. When filled with this spirit, students are much more approachable than they ordinarily are and often yield to instincts which, were it not for the infusion of said spirits, would have no influence whatever. We have every reason to suppose from what we have seen that the close of the recent examination does not differ in the least from similar occasions...