Word: evening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cannot commend too highly the action taken at the mass meeting last evening. Harvard has taken a fair and decided position and has shown that she will not allow her policy to be dictated by the action of any other college. The meeting showed the universal sentiment of the college, that we have gone too far to withdraw, and that a new base-ball association must be formed. At a mass meeting held on Wednesday, Yale voted to empower her delegates to enter any league except a triple one composed of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. When Yale sees the position...
...negative side, it was argued that a university club would do very little to break up cliques and factions in the college. It would not even reduce the friction between them. The club would be the scene of political intrigues, which would be without a parallel outside of those notorious faction fights, which have done so much "to make Yale infamous." At the present time, there is less hostile feeling between different societies at Harvard, considering its size, than at any other college in America! Such a club as the one proposed would not tend to promote sociability among...
...artist that he was gradually induced to abandon conventional statues of the gods and fashion the more perfect ones of athletes. Then, too, the training of many men had the effect of furnishing a large number of good models. It is almost impossible for our modern artists to get even one very good model. The Palaestra became the dissecting room of the Greek artist; he did not need to study the human form...
...52nd Dynasty the statue of a victor was first fashioned in wood. This was very rough, but when the ice was once broken, statues of athletes became immensely popular with all the artists. In fact, there is scarcely a vase to be found without an athlete portrayed upon it, even though its principal theme is a mythical representation...
...shut out of the freshman races without very good reasons. If this scheme is found practicable, there is no reason why Ninety should not create a precedent of having Yale in the freshman races, as they have little reason to be afraid of being beaten on an even course...