Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...nine will leave Boston today at one o'clock for Providence where they will play at three this afternoon. A few changes have been made in the Harvard team and a very close game is expected. Winslow's finger is fast getting well and he will be back at his old place at third while Adams will take Hayes's place in right...
...playing a good steady game; his net play and lobbing were both good, and he won the first two sets, 6-3, 6-3. Chase took a brace at the beginning of the third set. By careful play and good placing both at the net and from the back of the courts, he won the third and fourth sets and made the score two all. The play during the last set was extremely close, neither man being more than one game ahead at any time. The play was almost even, except that Chase's lobbing was the better. Chase finally...
...attempt to receive assistance from written aids or from any person or his paper, or any attempt to give assistance. This rule holds within or without the examination room during the entire time in which the examination is in progress. The sentiment of the student body is back of the movement, and the Faculty is heartily in its favor. A prominent member of that body recently said that he regarded this honor system as the most important movement which had taken place in Princeton during his professorship - a period of some fifteen years...
...along without it. I'm going to vote agin it and so's my wife. Daniel Webster, when he was a boy, got it into his head that he had to study books. So he went to Boston and never was heard of again." To go back to oratory and acting, many actors have wondered why they have failed in making speeches, and many orators have been surprised that they have not succeeded on the stage. While many of the attributes are the same, as clear articulation, graceful gesture, impressive manner, and magnetism, they separate at a certain point...
...even opera. Now there are special companies for each, and because they devote more time to them they do them better. Moreover, the best actors in stock companies usually become stars as soon as they achieve their reputation. There is little sense in finding fault and wishing to go back to the old stock companies...