Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attempting to make a fair catch collided with Devens and lost the ball. Bancroft got it and passed to Bradle, who made a touchdown. Perry failed to kick the goal. The playing now seemed to be without any snap. Harvard blocked very poorly and repeatedly failed to get touchdowns even when within 20 feet of the line. At last the ball was kicked over the Tech line and Slocum managed to fall on it first. Then Perry tried for a goal but failed and Trafford got another touchdown, but the referee decided that Perry must kick it over again...
...Prof. Childs was compelled to stay in his house two days last week as a direct result of his zeal in trying to find some books in the library. All this cannot be laid to the riegligence of the employees of that building, since pure air must be obtained even at the risk of severe consequences; but there is no justification for the college authorities to pass over a matter of so great an importance, and one which has been brought to their notice so often, with such silent contempt...
...sees his own shadow and is in darkness; but if he follows Christ be faces the light, and all is clear. When a man comes to college he is a student, but a poor one at first; in like manner, when a man follows Christ he becomes a Christian, even though a poor one. To do what is right, to think what is right, is a life worth living. Any man can begin that life to-morrow...
...friends that he made while at the preparatory schools, such, for example, as the Boston Latin School and Roxbury Latin school, St. Paul's, Phillips Academy, etc., and after four years' stay at Cambridge there may be quite a number of his own class with whom he has not even a speaking acquaintance. This is altogether different from the fraternal spirit that used to pervade all of the classes at Harvard a generation or more ago, and is much nearer approximation to the conditions that obtain at English universities, where the friends that an undergraduates has are largely those whose...
...known until after the pending examinations are completed. If any material increase is made this year in the number of students in the Harvard professional schools, the whole number of students in the university is likely to be about 2000, an aggregate of which Americans may well be proud, even when comparing it with the student rolls of English and Continental universities...