Word: gracing
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Scarcely one girl in three ventures to wear a jersey, mainly because she knows too well that this tell-tale jacket only becomes a good figure. Yet the difference in girth between the developed arm which graces a jersey and the undeveloped one which does not, in a girl of the same height and age, is seldom more than two inches, and often, even, than one, while the well-set chest outgirths the indifferent one by seldom over three inches. Among girls, running is a lost art. Yet it is doubtful if an exercise was ever devised which does more...
...good to almost anything, we fear that any investigation of such a subject as secret societies will result in nothing but angry defiance on the part of the students who naturally feet that their privileges are being violated. Undergraduates are not apt to accept with any degree of grace, dictation from their alumni, believing as they do that they themselves are reasonable beings and can institute reforms if reforms be needed. The undergraduates of Harvard have already had a taste of indiscreet graduate interference in the matter of the disputed Colombia race and the dose, to say the least...
...committee beg every man in Eighty-Four to remember that the officers elected, however contrary to his own wishes, will represent the desire of the majority of the class ; and that therefore it is only gentlemanly to acquiesce in the result of the elections with the best possible grace, and do everything in his power to make the class day of Eighty-Four a pleasant and successful...
...ball. Having selected a suitable spot he brought out an egg-shaped article covered with yellow leather and deposited it with tender care on the spot. Then a slim boyish looking fellow took half a dozen quick steps forward and let out at the ball with all the grace and force of the hereafter of a Kentucky mule. The ball sailed away into the air, and the entire crowd went tearing after it. It came down and bounded once. A Wesleyan man seized it, and a Princeton man seized him, and, after slinging him round and round two or three...
...aristocracy and country gentlemen who are not fitting themselves to earn a living, but only to guide and adorn society. Most of these men come up to university, not to give much time to academic work, but to receive that air of refinement and that touch of grace which tradition says one only gets at Oxford or Cambridge. Their academic work has been done already at one of the great public schools or under private tutors. Then the boating, the foot-ball, the cricket, the tennis, the hunting, the intercourse with "fellows," "scholars," lecturers, and professors, the acquaintances...