Word: showness
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...apart on which all good people were to offer up their prayers for the blessings which they had received. Now it happened that there were Three Important Persons whose blessings had been greater than usually fall to the lot of man. Knowing this they felt called upon to show their thanks in a more marked way than by the repetition of prayers, and so. like the pilgrims of old, they set out on a pilgrimage. Now those who were fortunate enough to behold these Three Important Persons saw a strange sight. First came the Chair Man (so called because...
...Club, why not recommend to the corporation that the use of the boat house be granted rent free? At present, the reckless students pay the college $500 a year for it, almost as much as the expense of a coach. Here is a great opportunity for the committee to show, what is doubted by a few ungrateful students, that they really have the best interests of the students at heart. Here is a test...
...faculty interference in athletics was so novel and disagreeable, that the students simply bucked against it recklessly. Now the idea of interference, although no less disagreeable, perhaps, has lost all of its novelty, and we realize that, as the power to act undoubtedly lies with the faculty, we must show cause why they should not take any particular action, and try to bring them to our way of thinking. So, while the right of interference cannot be denied, we think that the committee ought to allow the students at least a fair chance to correct the evils, which they must...
...earth the sign of "Boarders Wanted," "Hair cut and shave, 50 ets.," or "Reserved for Ladies," can mean. I will say nothing about the uses of a camera during the summer, they are too obvious to mention; but if any one will call at my room I can show him photographs of all my summer "mashes," and few college men can do that...
This enthusiasm to which a man is stirred, and which prompts him to sacrifice himself for the success of his side, is one of the chief arguments in favor of foot ball. Any man who has learned to display determination on the foot ball field, is very certain to show it in any work of life be may afterward enter. The Duke of Wellington declared that all his great victories had been decided long before on the foot ball fields of England. Moreover, a few bruises cannot offset the advantages of that training whose great aim is to develope coolness...