Word: retainer
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...indoors on an asphalt track, and it remains for the spring sports to show whether Mr. Clark can do as well on a cinder track. It is not too much to say, however, that Johnson will have to ride much faster next September than he did last year, to retain the amateur championship title. It may be of interest to state that Mr. Clark will probably be in '84 at Columbia, and will prove a dangerous opponent at the Intercollegiate next year, in case a bicycle race is added to the programme, which is more than probable, as Columbia, Princeton...
...plan proposed will give to a student the credit due him for proficiency in any special study, and at the same time retain all the advantages heretofore derived from an average. It is a long step forward in the direction of doing greater justice to all, and is a necessary corollary to the elective system, and therefore it is earnestly to be hoped that it will be adopted...
...throws some light on the action of that university. From this we learn the trials, comprising about all the rowing talent that Oxford can show this winter, are composed of almost entirely new men, only two of the old hands pulling in the two boats. As Oxford managed to retain last year five of her old oars, two of whom were fourth-season men, the contrast of circumstances this year is rather unpleasant...
Again it was suggested that if we take the words ce qui pend au talon, "that which hangs down to the heels," and then erase all but the verb and the noun, we shall retain the sound of pantalons, from which the present spelling might well arise. The word, at any rate, has been used in English since the time of Hudibras, who says...
...notice on the Bulletin Board, "Members of the Holyoke club are please requested to meet, etc." brought together men who are interested in boating to the number of three. One of these resigned his office; and another could be induced to retain his only by the most urgent appeals of the assembled multitude. (No nominations were made to fill the vacancy caused by the gentleman who resigned.) The third gentleman was a member of another club, and merely came to look on. Little business having been done, the meeting adjourned at an early hour...