Word: among
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Scrambles among the Alps" by Edward Whymper...
...Schiller died. His life was indeed romantic, filled with many struggles against adverse circumstances, and at a time when he had gained a high position among his people he was cut off by disease. Goethe lived a silent life for twenty-seven years after and at his death left works which filled forty volumes. Of the two, Goethe was the more natural and worked on the inspiration of the moment; Schiller, a man who worked in art for art's sake. As to the relation that existed between these men, possibly the monument that is erected to their memory...
...result of these games is enormous. The gambling spirit becomes so strong and so widespread that he is a rare undergraduate who believes, and lives up to the belief, that obtaining money from another without rendering an equivalent, is but a form of robbery. The cultivation of this spirit among the young men who should occupy places of leadership in the business and professional world is not to be considered lightly...
...These intercollegiate contests prevent a general physical culture among the students. The moment there is a " 'varsity team" in training the whole athletic interest centres in it; the time that should be given to vigorous exercise is given to a humpbacked watching of the practicing team from the fence or stand. This is no small evil, this making a concentrated extract of athlete; it is bad for the extract and bad for the residuum...
...Delta Upsilon held its seventh annual banquet at Young's hotel, Wednesday evening, with some sixty members present. Among the officers elected at the business meeting for the ensuing year were R. S. Beckford, Harvard, '85, secretary treasurer, and C. A. Bunker, '89, member of the executive committee. The society is in a very flourishing condition. Ten members were initiated into the Harvard chapter last Tuesday, and the meeting of the fraternity for 1891 will be held here...