Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whether there is a tournament or only the usual match with Pennsylvania, it is absolutely necessary for more men to go to the weekly meetings of the club. Lately there have been so few men at the meetings that some of the matches have had to be closed on account of lack of entries. Such a state of things ought not, and cannot go on and if Harvard is to shoot in any match this year and make a creditable showing, more interest must be shown...
...which today furnishes spiritual food for two hundred million people, is unique in that it is the work of one man. All other religious books of the same character the work of a long period of years and one of many men working under widely different circumstance. On this account the Koran possesses a greater degree of unity than any of the other gospels. The book consists of one hundred and fourteen divisions or suras. These are arranged arbitrarily, in the order of their length. The suras appeared at different times, as occasion demanded. They were not written...
...previous games. At present one cannot help noticing the fact that the men do not keep thoroughly alive to their work throughout the whole of a game. Harvard scored six runs to Dartmouth's nothing during the first two innings, but went to pieces so badly on account of carelessness in the fourth and fifth innings that Dartmouth scored three of her four runs. The score would indicate a fair game on the part of Harvard, but those who witnessed the game were far from satisfied with the work of the nine. Hawley struck out six men and gave three...
...duties, the lecturer said that the limiting of the number of actors to three had one important result: it insured that the parts would be well acted. In should be mentioned that in addition to the principal actors, "mute persons" could be brought on the stage. On account of their wearing masks, the actors could not use facial expressions, but relied utterly upon action to enforce the meaning. The costuming lacked the variety of the modern stage. The dress of the tragic actor was always the same, and in comedy there was not much more variety...
...regular meeting of the Shooting Club postponed yesterday on account of rain, will be held next Tuesday, the 23rd...