Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...especially to Harvard. It is proposed that every four years there should be held in London an "English Festival," which should consist of contests in track events, cricket and rowing. These contests were at first to be open merely to the English colonists but it is now proposed to admit America. The action is taken in view of the splendid showing that our athletes made abroad last summer and also of our games against Lord Hawk's team of cricketers. Owing to this last proposal Mr. J. Astley Cooper, who is one of the originators of the scheme, has written...
...statements of Mr. Moses Williams in regard to the condition of the library reading room fund call for the most earnest consideration on the part of the undergraduate body of the University. The pressing need of a suitable reading room furnished with electric light is too generally felt to admit of more than one opinion regarding the scheme developed two years ago to supply the want. This plan, thanks to the individual energy of two or three men, was put into practical operation with such success as Mr. Williams' report shows. This twenty-two thousand dollars, the total of cash...
...from the personal character which the dispute has unfortunately taken the controversy is interesting as indicative of the keen philisophical spirit prevalent in America. Philosophers as such are apt to be thought of as existing in a state of unprejudiced calm and guided by a reason which hardly would admit of enthusiasm. The following spirited paragraph in Professor Royce's critique, which is said to have been the principal cause of the controversy, suggests, however, that philosophers may become very much interested...
...Dyke said, "There are two general principles in regard to the gospel which I think every person of common sense will admit. The first is the principle of adaptation, and the second is the principle of permanence...
...method followed in disposing of the 2100 ticket placed on sale yesterday morning, the criticism of it has been anything but temperate. The plan of issuing extra orders to those who offered adequate reason was not an entire success perhaps, but it worked much better than anyone would admit yesterday. It prevented the speculators from securing any considerable number of seats and distributed the tickets among the students as effectually as any other method which has been tried. Orders for extra tickets were given only after an assurance that they represented several undergraduates or graduates and would not speculate with...