Word: proving
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...character never before suspected to exist, and would be heartily enjoyed. We are too apt to shut ourselves up with our own friends, and from the loopholes of our retreat to view the rest of our classmates with exceedingly indifferent eyes. This is doubtless pleasant, but it would prove more beneficial to ourselves and others if we could unbend sufficiently to cultivate other acquaintances. Be it understood that I am by no means advocating the "gushingness" of the Freshmen, nor do I suggest that we should be intimate with every one; but there is a happy mean between indifference...
...University has undergone some very important changes since we spoke of them two weeks ago. The positions of the men are now announced as settled upon; but (much as we long to see the crew made up) we trust that this will not prove to be the fact. That Otis is the best man for stroke we have little doubt, but we question seriously the policy of placing Wetmore No. 2, and changing two of the strongest men in the boat over to the side they are not accustomed to row on. Bacon and Taylor may be able...
That this increasing general interest in out-of-door sports will not prove an advantage to the University can hardly be believed. We hope most earnestly that its effect will be felt this summer, and that our Nine, and the crews we send to Saratoga will bring back with them the palm of victory; but whether this much-wished-for result is attained this year or not, we feel confident that this interest insures our future success...
...discussing in a masterly manner the rules of Draw Poker. Many have thought such a work beneath the dignity of a United States Minister; and the frequency with which this dignity has been urged has revived the memory of an experience of my own which may not prove uninteresting...
...College Spectator contains an editorial upon the disputed magenta. It expresses the willingness of Union College to give up the color, but at the same time it insists that it is properly theirs by priority of adoption. In its anxiety to prove this priority, it declares that "in 1857, when colleges were choosing colors as a distinctive mark, Union chose magenta." A glance at the history of the time would have shown that the battle which gave its name to the color in question was not fought until June, 1859. If Union College chose the color two years earlier...