Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Word has been received from Brown that the game which was provisionally postponed from last Wednesday until next Thursday cannot be played. Brown has two hard games next week as it is, and in another game with Harvard has nothing to gain but much to lose. HARVARD. COLUMBIA. McCall, 2b. l.f., Shafer Briggs, 1b. 2b., Schmidt Currier, c. 1b., Miltenberger Dexter, l.f. c., Young Simons, s.s. r.f., Tonking Harvey, c.f. s.s., Zimber Dana, r.f. c.f., Elson Pritchett, 3b. 3b., Hayes Brennan, p. p., Lee or Bradtke
...dying in a hospital), it is treated with individuality, feeling and truth. This, observe, has brought in death again; and the one conspicuously immature characteristic of the number as a whole is that so much of the serious fiction terminates in or involves death. Undergraduate writers cannot apparently be made to see that there are tragedies of life as well as of death...
...instruction. Such criticism as that made here would be more likely to win a hearing if the writer would first fortify himself with a knowledge of the facts. Assistants are supervised, are sometimes dropped, sometimes promoted. Departments do meet and plan for the effectiveness of their work. It cannot be more than five or six years since a very large and comprehensive opportunity was given to the undergraduates to criticise the instruction provided for them, though the information thus collected proved less suggestive than had been hoped. If the editorial writer wishes to serve the University in this matter...
...marked contrast to this generous treatment and wide range of subjects, the Department of Fine Arts offers, and has for several years, but five regular courses. One of these is an elementary course in the rudiments of drawing and water-color. Two others cover the same ground and cannot therefore be counted towards a degree. It is then an actual fact that the entire history of painting, sculpture and architecture, ancient and modern, is covered by three courses! And, more-over, one of these, though it is disguised under the name of the "History of Landscape Painting," is really...
...perhaps considered second rate, as Achilles is not a very sympathetic hero; and were it not for his misery and repentance at the end, most readers would dislike him because of his arrogance and self-conceit. There are in the poem many inconsistencies, such as various descriptions which cannot be thought out, and similes which are not strictly applicable. In examining various instances of these inconsistencies the conclusion seems to be that the high poetic value of the Iliad must be considerably detracted from. We see many of the similes and descriptions taken over ready-made from order books...