Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...water first and soon had a lead of half a length, Cornell being second. Harvard and Cornell started at 35 strokes to the minute, Yale at 34. Yale soon increased to 36 and began to draw up at once, till at the three-quarters the three crews were about even. Here Yale drew gradually ahead and at the mile was rowing even with Cornell, Harvard being about a quarter length behind. For the rest of the course Yale kept up a long, powerful 33 till near the finish, when it was increased...
...outlook for Harvard in the ball game with Yale this afternoon is hopeful and even encouraging. If the Nine plays the game of which it is capable, and if it receives the thorough support of the undergraduates, we have every reason to expect a victory. The ability of the men to play winning ball against a strong team has already been shown in the second Princeton game. And, when they realize that they have the entire confidence of the University in their power to win this afternoon, we believe that they will rise to the occasion again and defeat Yale...
This table gives the number of slight illnesses, mostly remedial by rest, an even temperature, a regulated diet and good nursing, as over 1100; injuries requiring surgical treatment, 78, and miscellaneous-non-contagious diseases-535. November, January, February and March were the months showing the largest sick lists, and the average number of students in these months was respectively 45.7, 51.3, 46.5, 80.8. Of contagious cases there were during the year 108 only...
Judging from the showing made in the race, when the introduction of the new stroke and the untiring efforts of efficient coaches enabled the crew to show their superiority over all others, it would seem that they stood an excellent chance of winning, even from the best club crews in the country. A comparison of times also ranks the crew as one of the very first. Their most formidable rivals will be the crew of the N. Y. A. C., the Atlantas, and the Pennsylvania Barge Club's eight. The men will go to their quarters on the Schuylkill...
...often said that if an act be legal it is thereby honest, but there is fortunately another spirit among us which is satisfied only with what is moral. The greatest sin of the old school of economic thinkers consisted in separating entirely the economic from the ethical interests; and even now there is a too common feeling that religion is concerned only with churches and Sunday services, and that it has little to do with the practical running of the mill or the factory...