Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University and in its progress since the days when Mr. Nathaniel Eaton and his usher Nathaniel Briscoe comprised the faculty. Such a review shows how indissolubly the college is linked with the names of those who are best known in the history of the Common wealth...
...Porter 2, Earle or Slade bow. This crew of course had many faults but occasionally they did pretty fair work. Their chief faults as a crew were a general failure to control the slides, and to sit up at the finish. These faults together with a general jerkiness were common to all the men, who of course had individual faults of their own. C. F. Adams, 2d, of the Law School coached the men occasionally, but outside of that very little coaching was done...
...Brookline Common yesterday Hopkinson's defeated Roxbury Latin School eleven 18 to 6. Brewer played finely for Hopkinson's, while their team work was superior to Roxbury Latin eleven...
...tickets, taking advantage of the fact that others cannot, or least do not rush to the first sale of tickets, is at best a business to be ashamed of; but carrying it on as a student among students, setting the value of a small gain above a regard for common kindness that should exist between man and man, to say nothing of college mates, is contemptible. The only excuse that ever exists for the practice, namely that it is fair to charge some commission for the trouble taken in getting tickets, is none at all in the case of students...
...expense of clearing Norton's field intended to benefit teams in no way connected with Harvard? Is not the Cambridge Common good enough for these juvenile hordes? The official way in which the field is roped off and and taken possession of for these games, would lead one to think that these schools had authoritative permission to do so. Now there cannot be the slightest doubt under the existing circumstances, that they ought not to have this permission; if they do not have it, some one in authority ought to command them to play elsewhere and leave Norton's field...