Word: brought
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first three weeks of baseball practice in the cage have brought the university squad into very fair condition. The work so far has been directed largely toward an improvement in batting and in quickness of fielding. The men have shown excellent improvement in these departments but no definite judgment can be formed until the outdoor work begins. The prospects, however, are very promising for a team of consistent hitting ability. Only two of last year's team have been lost by graduation and there is abundant new material to fill these two vacant positions. R. A. Bard...
...evening at 8 o'clock. He will show how, in the history of thought, man, nature and God have been looked upon as entirely separate from each other. Idealistic philosophy has established a real relation, in some sense a unity, of the three. This idea of their relation has brought about an almost complete transformation, in some respects, of religious teaching, the main points of which will be discussed by the speaker...
...voted that the class should decide as to whether the ivy oration shall be held in the Stadium or not, but that all other details of the exercises be left to the Class Day Committee. The discussion as to whether the ivy oration should be held in the Stadium brought forth an unofficial statement that Professor Hollis had tested the acoustics of the Stadium and found it to be not entirely suitable for the delivery of the ivy oration. It was then voted that in case no suitable alternative be possible, the ivy oration be held at the Stadium...
...another. Dapper wants a "familiar" to make him win at cards. Drugger comes to learn how to grow rich at his trade. Sir Epicure is trapped by the hope of obtaining the philosopher's stone, which turns metals to gold. Tribulation seeks to enrich his church. Dame Pliant is brought by her brother Kastril to get a titled husband. Each is rapidly and cleverly fleeced, and the dialogue is full of the jargon of alchemy. Finally Lovewit returns and learns from the neighbors the strange doings at his house. Jeremy denies everything till the swindled and angry customers begin...
...other argument against the plan that the Stadium would be a less significant setting for the exercises than the Yard--was opposed by the contention that the principal part of Class Day would still center about the Yard and that by the use of Soldiers Field visitors would be brought in contact with a centre of another side of University life. Those who object to the plan of using the Stadium urged that every effort be made to see if the present Statue exercises need be abandoned, and that, if they must, other exercises be held somewhere in the Yard...