Word: beste
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of graduates, interested in football, have subscribed for a cup to be awarded annually to the best kicker on the eleven. It is now on exhibition in Leavitt and Pierce's window. Captain Cumnock has received a letter stating the conditions as follows...
...scheme proposed by the captain of the eleven a few days ago whereby the captains of the various class teams shall be subject to his appointment and direction seems to us to deserve the commendation of the students. The 'Varsity captain is supposed to be the best judge and the highest authority on foot-ball matters in college, and by him, therefore, every scheme for developing material should be controlled. In football, as in war, the greatest results may be attained when the general contol is vested in the leader, and when general orders emanate from him alone...
...lecturer spoke as foilows: The Mahabharata, the grandest poem in Indian literature, dates back about 2000 years. It is a mere jumble of episodes, some tedious, some ridiculous, and some as noble and musical as the best parts of Homer. The poem contains 220.000 lines, with 18,000 supplementary ones, and is held in such high honor by Indians that it is learned by heart. The Indians sit around some Brahmin, and consider it one of the greatest boons to listen to him recite episode after episode. The metre is easily mastered and therefore easily imitated; this quality...
...this part of the Mahabharata an addition has been made recently, but although spurious it is up to the mark of the best parts of the work. This addition is the "horse sacrifice" and tells how Udostheera and his army followed a white horse and conquered nation after nation. Peace and prosperity then came upon Udostheera's kingdom but he is not content, and abdicates. With his wife, four brothers, and a black dog, who is justice in disguise, he goes towards a sacred mountain for meditation. On the road all his companions except the dog drop dead, and these...
During the present week competative trials will be held by the Glee club and Banjo club preparatory to the year's work. Both of these organizations are university institutions and are supposed to represent the best musical talent of their sort in college. That this may be realized it is earnestly desired that all men who play or sing with any fair degree of proficiency should present themselves at the trials of both clubs. In no other way will Harvard be justly represented on the Christmas trip of the Glee and Banjo clubs...