Word: baron
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...medicine. It is true that the medical profession is responsible for much of the drunkenness of today. One celebrated physician has said that he could cure more diseases by prescribing total abstinence for one year than by ordinary practice for one hundred years. It is also well known that Baron Liebig said that there is as much nourishment in the quantity of flour that would lie on the point of a table knife as there is in eight pints of beer...
...poet of the evening was R. M. Townsend whose account of Baron Sahara and The Great Thirst, written in excellent rhyme, was full of humorous allusions. Other speakers were Captain Griffin of the class nine, Captain Forbes of the class crew, and A. Borden. The dinner ended with the singing of Fair Harvard by the whole class and cheers for Harvard and Ninety...
After a lapse of about two thousand years the Olympic games are to be renewed, in the interest of international amateur sport. The prime mover in this revival is a young Frenchman, Baron Pierre de Conbertin, who is well-known both in his own country and in America, as an enthusiast in athletic sports. He brought about the international athletic convention in Paris last June, the result of which was an arrangement whereby quadrennial meetings will be held, beginning next year in Athens. Besides all modern athletic contests an effort will be made to revive some of the old Greek...
...first session of the International Athletic Congress occurred at the Sorbonne, Paris, last Saturday afternoon. Baron de Courcel, who presided, outlined the purposes of the congress and stated that he hoped the delegates would endeavor to establish international athletic championships. Nearly three thousand persons were present, among them being Professor Sloane of Princeton...
...began practicing earlier than has usually been done and as a result have attained to a degree of precision and expression in the rendering of their music beyond what is common in freshman clubs. There will be a dance after the concert and the patronesses will be Mrs. Le Baron R. Briggs, Mrs. Francis G. Peabody, Mrs. Horace E. Scudder, Mrs. Charles E. Wentworth and Mrs. Arthur Gilman...