Word: evening
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...speaking was vigorous and pleasing, but even the difficulty of handling well so broad a subject in so short a debate did not excuse the absence of any real arguments on the part of the principal disputants. The speakers from the house showed a better conception of the question, however, and approached the debate in a better manner...
...sphere of his power as a teacher was thus enlarged, he availed himself to the utmost of his new opportunities and opened his rich store of erudition without stint to all who were capable of appreciating them. His sparkling wit was ever ready to illuminate dark corners in even the abstrusest departments of learning, and he could make the dryest subject interesting by his skilful and original way of present-it. To his originality many scholars widely scattered through the land can bear testimony, recalling that it was he who first showed them that there were things to be learned...
...degree of perfection at the earliest possible date, a fact which has figured prominently in the rolling up of large scores at the beginning of the season, while Harvard's policy has been exactly the contrary. Taking this into consideration, it really seems that Harvard ought to stand an even chance of winning. The team has just reached its highest point in development and will be handicapped in a very small degree by the loss of two or three of the regular men, as the substitutes who will take their places are all capable of good football...
...Varsity scored only once, and that on a goal from the field by Haughton. As a whole the practice disclosed the same listless tendency of the team to play up hill football at times, even against the weaker second's line...
Most unquestionably this plan is commendable for several reasons. In the first place it will tend to centralize the practical work of collecting, placing it all under one head, the graduate manager. As it is now, the crew manager, the Mott Haven management, and even the cricket and lacrosse teams work away to raise money, without any cooperation. As a result they clash more or less, and a number of collectors have to cover the same ground. It is very doubtful whether altogether they are able to raise more from a given number of individuals than could a single collector...