Word: copings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Rourke, attack field, Cope...
...course received a D, is a law both unjust and impolitic. Its injustice lies in the fact that a man may have striven sincerely for three years to graduate with a cum laude and then perchance failed on some knotty half course through a natural inability to cope with his subject. Some men's minds are so constituted that they find it all but impossible to grasp certain lines of study, and after long and laborious work at some difficult course they find a man who is their inferior in some other branch of work, far ahead of them...
...desirable to glance at the growth of the prototypes of all universities, Bologna and Paris. The causes which made these institutions possible are the same. When the crusades had thoroughly leavened the social and mental structure of Europe, the municipalities of Lombardy demanded a corps of trained administrators to cope with the problems of a vigorous trading policy and intense political strife. This tendency was localized by the pitching of Irnerius and an able body of successors who maintained the glory of the school. At the beginning of the 13th century there were 10,000 students in Bologna; toward...
...that it is undesirable to have another yearly contest with Yale. We have, perhaps, enough already. But to assert as a reason for refusal that such a contest will give Yale the same advantages which we have, is to cast reflections upon the ability of our 'Varsity teams to cope with those of Yale on fair and equal terms, and is unworthy of Harvard men. The matter hinges now on the suitability of the Thames course for a triple race. Therefore let a meeting of the freshman class be called at once by the proper officers, in view...
...loss to choose, when spring comes, nine men to represent '90 at New Haven. But, '90, only a small portion of the year's work has been done as yet. Strict training and much practice must be done before you will be able to cope successfully with Yale. You have beaten her once; it should be an extra incentive to be victorious over her in the base-ball field. It is rumored that the Yale freshmen have some unusually good material and that they are doing everything to retrieve their losses of last fall. If this be true, you will...