Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...uniform in all the fourteen colleges. The commission now contemplates raising the requirements in modern languages, and should the plan succeed, all the colleges interested would probably adopt the same standard. Similarity in entrance examinations is not only impossible but undesirable, yet a certain uniformity will undoubtedly tend to strengthen the bonds between the various colleges and facilitate greatly the preparatory work of many young...
...occasioned by his absence must be great. His work in the pulpit and among the students has always been of an eminently practical nature. He has had always in mind the great temptation which must necessarily assail men during their college career, and his words have been aimed to strengthen men against these temptations. His earnestness has never failed to secure the closest attention of those who have been fortunate enough to hear...
...over two hundred men less than half should possess enough class feeling to urge them to make use of one of the pleasantest opportunities of a man's college life. The class has not been really united in any way since freshman year. Here is a chance to strengthen the ties which should bind all classmates together; to rehearse the victories and celebrations of freshman year, and to have a jolly time generally; and all at the cost of a couple of dollars, though with the inducement of passing a very pleasant, profitable and sociable evening. We hope that...
...necessary instrument without which it cannot act. They are two halves of the same being, and their harmonious development s conducive to human perfection. For the term of their earthly pilgrimage they are more inseparable and more independent than the horse and its rider. Hence we must improve. strengthen, enrich and harmonize the powers of the physical organism before we can reasonably expect to see aptitude, energy, talent and learning grow on the tree of life. That alone is a good education which gives to the body and the soul all the perfection and beauty of which they are susceptible...
...candidates for the Yale freshman crew are 24 in number and are working daily under the guidance of Gill, '89. The regular routine consists of a short run when the weather permits, work on the chest weights, dumbbells and Indian clubs and such movements of the body as will strengthen the muscles of the back and stomach and rowing on the hydraulic. The men are unusually light and as yet no very good candidates have been developed: The men and their weights are as follows: Isham, 163, Oastler, 156; Dean, 148; Aiken, 163; Coates, 155; Chadwick, 162; Corson, 148; Moody...