Word: evens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...colleges made engagements to sing at Newton within a week of each other. This caused considerable rivalry and not a little ill feeling among those who had the matter in charge, and the partisans of each college went to work vigorously to make their concert the more successful. Even the local papers took sides. The Journal called attention to the fact that it was not the Yale 'Varsity Glee Club, but the Apollo Club, which was advertised to sing at Newton, and predicted that Amherst would give the better entertainment. The Graphic replied by publishing an article which, with delightful...
...hardly be called economical for a man of limited means to pay his janitor $25 for blacking boots and tending the fire. With a few exceptions the estimates for an economical man should be about what are given under the column "Least without assistance," but some of these even are too high. The allowance for sundries should be reduced as before by at least $75. The items, janitor, fees, and extra travel, should be struck out, subscriptions and societies together reduced by $10, and theatres, dinners and parties by $5-for these are luxuries in which a man with...
...Yale men, made his appearance at New Harven yesterday. He was enthusiastically greeted, and escorted to the new training table. After dinner he was closeted with Captain Stevenson and ex-Captain Cowles. Cook is very reticent in giving information about the crew; he does not commit himself even so far as to state its strength compared with those of former years. He went out in the afternoon to look the men over and see what progress they had made with the stroke. it is highly probable that there will be a considerable weeding out of the candidates soon...
...existence of such a feeling, even without good reason, causes a friction and sense of irritation which tends to produce attempts to evade such restriction, by ways which are extremely foreign to the old-time Harvard spirit of open and cordial relations between students and faculty...
...deny the charge of the newspapers, that he said that "neither the brains nor the bodies of women were quite equal to severe studies." The whole matter is only another proof of what President Eliot said a short time ago, concerning the eagerness of the press to injure Harvard, even by the distortion and misrepresentation of facts...