Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Will you allow me to correct certain misstatements that have been made as to Harvard's objections to some of the Princeton football team? There has been no dispute between Harvard and Princeton on any question of fact, nor has Harvard at any time taken a position which could by any possibility have caused a rupture of the athletic relations existing between the two universities, or a refusal by either to play the football game arranged for today. A question was at one time raised as to Mr. Gailey's eligibility to play on the Princeton team. Upon investigation, however...
...season draws to a close, all interest snow centred on the two remaining games for the championship during the week preceding the Cornell game. Most of the practice was secret and the team work was very much improved, but there is still much room for improvement in that direction. Certain members of the team showed a great tendency in the Cornell game for offside play, which, if it is not remedied before the game with Harvard on Saturday, might prove very disastrous, as it is expected that the game at Cambridge will be very close, besides being the most interesting...
...recent conduct of certain members of the Freshman football team calls for more than passing comment...
...refute various arguments adduced in support of the traditional view, namely, those based on the language of Vitruvius, on the theory that a stage was needed in order to enable the audience to see the action; and, finally, the supposed evidence of the theatre at Megalopolis and of certain pictures upon Greek vases from lower Italy. He showed that not only is the evidence of the plays themselves and also of other branches of literature in favor of the united action of actors and chorus on the same orchestral level, but that in none of the Greek theatres...
...closing, Professor Dorpfeld called attention to the remarkable correspondence between what we know Tiryns and Mycenae to have been and Homer's description of the palaces of heroic times, and confirmed the truth of the comparison by certain conspicuous and convincing examples. This fact is of importance in determining the date of the Homeric poems. They belong to the same age with Tiryns and Mycenae, and are not the creation of a poet's fancy, but trustworthy descriptions of the life and art of the Heroic...