Word: brought
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...begun. The other entered Princeton College for the first time, as a special student, only a short time before the Princeton-Harvard game on Nov. 16, which was the first game in which either of them played. The natural, although perhaps mistaken, inference is that these gentlemen were brought to Princeton to play football The inference is strengthened in the one case by the engrossing nature of the duties of an instructor in a large preparatory school; and in the other by the fact that the gentleman referred to is said on trustworthy authority to have entered the Law School...
...withdrawal of Harvard from the Intercollegiate Football League was due to the fact that the intense competition within that League had led to objectionable practices in all the colleges, which, as was proved at the meetings held in New York on Nov. 4 and 14, Princeton could not be brought to abandon by amicable agreement. The chief of these objectionable practices are-first, inducing good players to enter college, or to return to college mainly for the purpose of engaging in intercollegiate contests; and, secondly, putting on teams good players who are not in reality amateurs, but have received compensation...
...best features of the report too, is the evident spirit of fairness with which the whole matter has been treated. There has been no attempt at a concealment of Harvard's real faults and no desire to avoid the evidence of any seemingly disagreeable facts which may have been brought to light during the recent controversy. The football question has been met fairly and squarely, and the result cannot fail to be gratifying to all whose sympathies are with Harvard. The thanks of the university are due the Athletic committee for their energy and faithfulness in the work they undertook...
...Romantic movement, however, produced a lasting effect in the powerful impulse which it gave to the study of mediaeval literatures. Many of the poetic treasurers of the middle ages which had been buried for centuries were now brought to light and the side of the Romantic tendency in literature then arose to a parallel tendency in philology, most conspicuously represented in its early beginnings by the two Grimm brothers, the founders of the new science of Germanic philology...
...chiefly indebted to the German government for our knowledge of the architecture and sculpture of Pergamon. By the aid of the large sum of money voted by the German government extensive researches have been made, and many relics have been brought to Berlin, which has become one of the chief centres of the study of Greek...