Word: strains
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...successful team of Harvard men last May, Goodwin, who won two of the first prizes, has graduated, as have two of the winners of second prizes, Allen and Mandell. Yale and Columbia have their teams of a year ago practically intact, so that to win this year, we must strain every nerve to fill up the vacancies, if we hope to even approach the foremost position. Nothing but long and steady work on the part of every man who has any show at all for the Mott Haven team can save us from an overwhelming defeat at the inter-collegiate...
...color, the situation of the club at present is peculiarly unfortunate. Those reasons are evidently of such a nature that the club is unwilling to make them public, preferring rather to suffer under an unjust charge of race prejudice. This state of affairs must, of course, be a severe strain upon the patience of the club, and is apt to end in the indignation of some one of the members getting the better of him, and a revelation following of the personal objections which caused the black-balling of Messrs. Greener and Terrell. In the mean time the friends...
...yodeler pursues the object of his passion, the very elusive and unattainable yodel, at all hours of the day and night. He kneels at his inamorata's shrine when first he wakes; and at the solemn hours of mid-night he flats a few sweet notes as the last strain of his farewell serenade before he goes to bed, or in the early morning he chirps out his cheerful clear-toned song to tell his fellow birds that he is up. He must be deaf; for surely he cannot hear the beloved yodel say-"not this eve," each time...
...from that made in the ordinary way, because it does not admit of "tinkering," save by a special process, which can be worked only by a diferent body of workmen. Hence the first kind of constitution is elastic, the second rigid ; the flrst is admirable, able to bear sudden strains without any injury to its effectiveness, and modifies itself almost insensibly, so as to satisfy new ideas, new wants, new interests. An elastic constitution meets revolution half way. But when the people live under a constitution contained in an organic written law, the slightest change will produce a visible strain...
...farewell to our readers, until after Christmas recess. The vacation is short, but let us be happy that this year assumes the largest power, for by a judicious strain at either end we can comfortably leave our college course for the period of two weeks. The vacation, coming as it does just before the mid-year examination, can be looked at in two very widely differing ways. Some consider it as a breathing spell in the steady grind of college work, and enjoy themselves to the utmost. Others look upon it as a special opportunity, reserved by the hand...