Word: alle
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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As in the game last spring, it was largely science against strength. Their long kicks were fine to look at, but really availed them little. Their sending eight or nine men into a rush did no good, for there was no one to be rushed, as Rollins would invariably kick...
Both clubs had evidently determined to fight hard. The McGill men knew each other, played together, and passed the ball more than the All Canadas. The game was exciting in the extreme, both for the players and the lookers-on. The ball at the beginning was kept very close to...
Now, a reflecting man would pronounce at once that such a state of opinion ought not to exist in "the foremost college in America." He would question whether the working man does not, after all, get the best of Harvard culture, and whether the "grind," discountenancing, of course, a too...
To this sentiment in regard to work I ascribe what truth there may be in the opinion which I have quoted. To say that the sentiment ought to be corrected would be a mere truism. Of this we may be sure, that in the long run hard work will tell...
MY DEAR JACK, - Your answer to my last letter is very natural. You say that I am inconsistent; that, while urging you to appear to be a rich man, I have furnished your room in such a manner that, to say the least, it is not superior to those of...