Word: developing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Such a game is Dr. Sargent's battle ball, which has attracted considerable attention of late and which he is still trying to develop. If his present effort to introduce a greater element of skill and team play is successful, he will have done a great service to athletics...
Committees from the Harvard Union and the Wendell Phillips Club will meet this evening to make arrangements for the formation of a Freshman Debating Union. The purpose of the proposed club is to arouse interest in debating among the new students and so to develop material for the Harvard Union and the Wendell Phillips Club...
Harvard College has been made by the generosity and sacrifice of men of former years; it will continue to develop chiefly as the men who have partaken of its benefits do, in turn, their part to enrich...
...think that the series are too valuable to be allowed to go to ruin in this way. They do good to the men on the teams, they give needed practice to the freshmen, and they develop 'varsity material. It must never be forgotten that under the new rules, the 'varsity will practically have to be made each year from new men in the University and from the players on the class nines. Are not the games important enough to be taken seriously...
...purpose of the Harvard Republican Club is not to develop partisanship, but to stimulate into activity the convictions of the republican students. Membership in the club shows a man's devotion to the principles in which he believes-principles which seem to him essential to the welfare of his country. Politics and religion are both vital subjects. The rule of the University has not been to disallow privileges to religious organizations of one sect or another, on the ground that some of them must be wrong, and therefore all must be excluded. The rule has been, rather, that all should...