Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...After cut for deal, the first hand is dealt, and trump card turned. Each player places the card he plays face up ward before him. The side winning each trick takes one of a pile of thirteen counters in the middle of the table...
...plan of forming an intercollegiate debating union is by all odds the most interesting and important topic which American college students will have to deal with for some time. Athletics have held full sway in college life for a good many years and have been the sole subject for intercollegiate competition; but as the all-important factor in college life they have had their day. They will continue to be important, but they must share importance with contests of intellect and oratory. In the organization of this new movement for the equality of brain and muscle, Harvard adds one more...
...evident on the surface; but the movement has a deeper meaning which may not suggest itself so readily. This plan is the first movement to organize college brain and college thought so that they may have some influence in what is called the "outside world." There is a great deal of good thinking done in college, but most of it does the world no good simply because it lacks opportunity. If it could reach beyond college bounds and could be given something besides itself to spend its energy upon, its energy would greatly increase. The trouble is simply that college...
...Meaning of the Colors of Animals in the Struggle for Existence;" the lecture will be illustrated by stereopticon views. This lecture will be directly in the line of a series of lectures on the "Colors of Animals" which Professor Poulton has been giving before the Lowell Institute. It will deal more thoroughly than these lectures with one phase of the subject. Professor Poulton is one of the best known of living zoologists and his lecture this afternoon is sure to be most interesting and most valuable. The topic of the lecture will probably suggest an entirely new idea...
Almost invariably during the examination period come complaint comes about the proctors. The system is a necessary evil, but almost every year it is made doubly objectionable by some action which is an unnecessary evil. Yesterday at one of the larger examinations there was a good deal of talking by the proctors and much more moving about than seemed necessary. It was perfectly plainly a disturbance to several men. We realize that some movement is necessary and that some talking may be. It is but fair to demand, however, that everything of the kind not absolutely necessary be dispensed with...