Word: forth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshmen in jeopardy as their anchor came up off the floor a little. '85 gained some eight inches and then '87 went to work with a will to get it back, heace after heave came from the plucky freshmen and once Gilman was caught up a little. Back and forth went the tape but always on '85's side of the line These small alternate gains and losses lasted for about three or four minutes and then the '85 men seemed to act on the defensive as they had several inches to spare. Not so the freshmen. "Heave heave," came...
ners by two inches. Then the pent-up enthusiasm of the whole junior class broke forth into indiscriminate cheering and the team was borne away on the shoulders of their classmates. Gilman, on the shoulders of four men, was carried around the "yard" followed by a crowd of '85 enthusiasts cheering until they were hoarse when they took him to his room in Matthews. While the juniors were thus disporting themselves to their own satisfaction the large crowd quietly filed out of the gymnasium and the third winter meeting of 1884 was over...
...editorial on the proposed American Academy has called forth a communication, which we print in another column. We think our correspondent takes too serious a view of the matter. No one proposes at present to establish an academy as far as we know, and we think the time is yet far distant when such an academy would be advisable. In fact if there were such an academy, it is our opinion that it should be an academy of the English speaking peoples, and that America should unite with England in its formation. As the purpose of such an academy...
...student's age at entrance appears to have been a matter of no consideration; if, however, he was more than sixteen years old, he was required to subscribe to the Articles of faith, as set forth in the Prayer Book, to "acknowledge the supremacy of his Royal Majesty" and upon oath, to observe the laws, privileges and customs of the University. We learn further that no student was allowed to board in a private family, but on the contrary that each and every one was enjoined by a heavy penalty to be settled in some college or hall within...
...literature of the subject has the seemingly innocent title "jottings from the journal of an A. B." But instead of this article being a sort of second edition of the lucubration's of Mr. Robert Grant's "Frivolous Girl," it is in reality a plaintive wail sent forth into the world by an almost despairing alumna-we suppose we must call her-of the Poughkeepsie institution of learning...