Word: closely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...premium. The first competition was on the subject of immigration to the United States, and the prize was won by Richard Lang of Baltimore. Progessor Dly is holding the $100 contributed by Mrs. Amelia Rives Chanler for the best essay on the subject of "Child Labor." This contest will close soon...
...Belmont marshes, and through them to Fresh pond and Mt. Auburn, where the break was made opposite the cemetery. The hares got in at 4.34 1-2, and it was twenty minutes before the hounds began to arrive. Alexander L. S., was first with Manley '93 a close second. Both hares and the first hound will receive prizes...
...lovely-everybody was happy and cried, "The finest game of foot ball ever seen!" The second half, the sky clouds and lowers, the sun disappears the cannon ceases to boom, and the complaints of slugging, unfair play, and Ames resound and increase with Princeton's score, till at the close Princeton is pronounced a brute, a knave, a liar. The Princeton players were, heavier men and older men than Harvard and could stand a rough game of give-and-take longer. Was this Princeton's fault? Then, too, there is no dispute that they played a better game...
...principal topics of interest in the nation, so athletics fill a most important place in college life. Newspapers, whose sole object is to make money, foster this abnormal interest in athletics by giving glowing accounts of all games. The editors are even ready to have a close game of base ball or of foot ball reported, as they are well aware of the likes and dislikes of their readers. This "abnormal interest" in athletic contests brings about betting, a "sign of a low state of ideals." Betting in college is a great evil as men who cannot afford...
...when Christ cometh no man knoweth whence he is." The problem of man's life said Dr. Brooks, is to find and keep the proper proportion between the mystical and the practical. The complete religion when perfectly revealed, must satisfy both sides of man's nature. The close association of Christ with life does not degrade Christ, but elevates life, because He is the stronger the two The choir sang "Ye shall dwell in the Land" by Stainer, and "The Lord is My Sheperd" by Percival...