Word: manning
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...following day I volunteered my services as an instructor in swimming, and gave my pupil her first experimental lectures at high tide; while the Yale man, from the shelter of a pile of drift-wood, cast rancorous glances at us and soliloquized in good round New Haven English...
...remember much about what followed, only I dimly recollect Amy's fainting, and then having seen a yacht come alongside, and the Yale man, about three times his natural size, helping Amy into it, and muttering something about the bad effects of drinking too early in the day, as he glanced...
...seeing her on the piazza, but when she cast a look of unspeakable contempt upon me, and walked away, my sense of relief gave way to that of despair. I knew not what to make of it, and when in the evening she went off with the Yale man, my feelings were the quintessence of wretchedness. That night I hardly slept a wink, and my chum declared afterward that I thrashed and groaned as if it was Semi-annual time. I felt that I must have said or done some horrible thing when I was seasick, and I wanted...
...Football and Base Ball Teams have been appointed. As these clubs depend largely upon subscription for their support, it is only natural that the subscribers should wish to have a voice in the election of a manager; as well for the satisfaction of seeing their money spent by a man whom they consider a good business man, as for the pleasure of seeing a friend hold the place. If the subscribers in the Football and Base Ball Clubs had a voice in the election of a manager, as is practically the case in University Boat Club and Athletic Association elections...
...there probably will be, as there always has been, more or less lobbying, we would urge it strongly upon the members of '81 to vote impartially, and to show that in a college class, if not in the outside world, it is possible to have the best man in the best place...