Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most marked successes that has ever recompensed efforts to bring education of a more advanced character within the reach and the desires of the working people. The Union has opened a new world of interests to hundreds of people whose lives before were sordid and cramped. Even if the reflex good which comes to teachers were not considered, the labor spent on the Union is assuredly well directed...
...Tuesday evening after the sad accident to a party of our fellow students had become known, the fear arose that the disaster was even greater than was at first supposed and that a fifth student had met his death. Nothing, however, could be learned definitely as to his fate, and we were not forced to abandon the hope that he might yet prove to be alive. His mother was very ill, and it was earnestly desired that she might be spared the shock which any whisper of danger to her son would cause and which, perhaps, she could be spared...
Athletic games are held not because they give one college a chance to defeat another, but because they are the best means of developing the different sports. They are promarily athletic exhibitions, and to cheer at any misplay is to ridicule an honest effort. For that matter, even if other teams were invited here that they might be defeated, it would still be poor taste to cheer at errors; Harvard ought to win through her own strength, not through the weakness of her opponents...
...question,- that no discourtesy is intended, and that the cheer comes because Harvard is gaining and not because opponents have made a misplay. Yet, in the outward appearance, there is nothing to distinguish one motive from the other, and it has been a tradition here that, in such cases, even the appearance of discourtesy should be avoided. It is a tradition that ought not to be broken...
...hurdles were even more successful. Eaton of Yale got a second in the first trial heat, which Jameson won; but Gareelon and Bremer took the two places in the next heat. In the finals Harvard got all three places. Bremer won the event easily in 24 3-5 sec., thus making a new world's record. Garcelon and Jameson took second and third respectively...