Word: comee
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Captain Wrightington has issued a call for candidates for next year's eleven, and has especially asked that men should come out who have never played before. Here then is the chance that is needed to make an effort to root out the spirit of individualism of which we spoke in an editorial yesterday morning. Here is a chance to show that the enthusiasm which characterized the football meeting on Thursday night was as truly deep and sincere as it appeared to be. Let men for once throw aside every private interest and come out and work for the University...
Call it by what name we will a spirit of individualism or indifference does exist among the students in this University and has existed for some time past. Graduates have come back to Cambridge from time to time and have scoffed at the idea. The fact is they have not known the truth, probably no one does realize it fully outside of the student body. Harvard students of today are enthusiastic at bottom. Their affection for their Alma Mater is as strong as it ever was, but they are not so willing to show it as they were twenty years...
...classic fables have come down from early times under the name of Esop's fables; but Esop, like Homer, is an unknown person. The first known collections of Greek fables was made about 300 B. C., by a certain Demetrius. Upon his version succeeding collections were made, with additions of tales from the East. From Greece the fables spread to Rome and thence over Europe, until in the Middle Ages several collections of tales were made in England and France, notably by Romulus Imperator and Marie de France...
...senior crew is now rowing in the eight-oared boat every day. Lewis has come out and rows at three. The order yesterday was: Stroke, Kales; 7, Forbes; 6, Rice; 5, Derby; 4, Sheperd; 3, Lewis; 2, Fox; bow, Fairchild. Fennessy coached from the coxswain's place...
...spring football squad will be called out next Monday. For the first few days only those men are wanted who have never played on a class team or on the 'varsity squad. Men who have never played before are urged to come...