Word: evening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only to result in the discovery that the secretary's records had been lost. The matter is now being investigated by a committee consisting of representatives from Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Mr. J. M. Hallo. well from Harvard. The loss of the secretary's records is very unfortunate, for even the names of the donors of the cup, and the amount given toward it by the different colleges forming the association, are matters of considerable doubt...
...time to the work of other than unskilled and frequently presumptuous writers, are, relatively speaking, only too rare. The immense quantity of trash that is thrown into the form of novels, and in some way provided with publisher and audience, is so noticeable that to even speak of it seems commonplace. It is not at all wonderful that we should have this vast stream of fiction, which can in no way be classed as literature, constantly flooding the book-stalls; yet, like some other plainly visible and unremarkable aspects of the time, it is regrettable, and must be to some...
...strength) secundum artem. In fact, the novel is sterling throughout. It is good in plot and workmanship, and in the portrayal and conception of character; it is natural and lifelike, and it is interesting. It is all this not now and then merely, but continually, and with an even, level temper which looks as if the writer had kept carefully within the limits of what was positively attainable. One gets an idea, that is to say, that the next novel one may have the good fortune to receive from the same hand will be even better than this...
...opinion of Harvard has been unmistakably in favor of a league of three clubs. The reasons therefor have been amply demonstrated in the results which have attended the admission of Columbia. But even if Harvard should decide to waive the evident advantages of a league with Princeton and Yale alone, why should Williams be chosen as the fourth college? She is not yet the champion of the Intercollegiate League. Dartmouth has given evidence of a strong nine. Why should her claims be cast aside? Did not Cornell defeat the Williams team on its own grounds? Williams has defeated a Harvard...
...that those men who imagine that they support the team by betting on them, learnt the falsity of their position. If some of the men who supported the athletic team by this method had given a little of their spare, cash to the association, the results would have paid even from their selfish financial point of view...