Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cents charge. The managers regret the necessity of this step, but could not otherwise pay the expenses of the theatre and the travelling expenses of the judges. As these debates are becoming more and more university events, there is no reason why the theatre should not be well filled, even if an admission is charged, especially as they are the only literary events of the year in which students alone participate...
...life often seems to a man to be an anti-climax. A young man starts out in the world with high ideals, striving to be perfect, the best in everything, the superlative in all his work. But as he grows older and sees how hard it is to attain even mediocrity, his ideals usually fall. He drops from the superlative to the comparative. He is trying to do better. Later he is content if he obtains the positive, if he can do well, not better than anyone else. So it seems as if all through a man's life...
...Harvard graduates, and the trip throughout was one round of entertainments. At nearly every city some prominent club extended its privileges to the students. The new plan of travelling in the daytime and stopping at hotels at night gave the men much needed rest and made the trip even more than usually enjoyable...
...athletic teams they will have to keep up their regular college work. This practically reduces the evils of our athletics to a minimum, and for the present these rules will be sufficient to keep the matter in check. The future will probably make greater restrictictions necessary even, perhaps, to the abolition of intercollegiate contests, but for the present such radical changes are unnecessary...
...their own personal expenses and they are perfectly right in asking that their fellow students aid them with the other necessary expenses. Every college man who is in New York at the time should see some of the matches and other men who have money might buy tickets even if they cannot use them. This is a University affair as much as a football game, and the students should give it hearty support...