Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...history and statistics of all the colleges in the country. No care seems to have been spared in making the work complete; and, although there are a few slight errors and omissions, the book is as a whole very accurate. It contains much that is sure to interest even the most casual peruser, and much that well merits careful attention. For one who wishes to obtain condensed information concerning any college the book is especially useful...
Almost every year at least two or three men who would be almost certain of places on the University athletic teams are either barred from taking part in the all-important contests or else are not even in a position to train for the teams, because of being put on probation for deficiency in college work. If a man of some athletic ability comes here, interests himself in things which will be of benefit to him alone, and is unwilling to do what he can just as well as not to help a thletics in the University, aside from what...
...disappear and polygamy and international literary piracy; we who have seen the beginning of the protection of our forests; our ballot laws so vastly improved and the spoils system stricken a tall blow. But we shall meet with disaster after disaster in America-and perhaps one disaster more than even our constitution can stand, if we do not exert ourselves constantly in the elevation of public affairs...
...large numbers of Juniors and lower classmen, whose presence here is highly desirable, will go to the race. The cheering of the classes at the Tree will be feeble, from lack of numbers; the preponderance of girls at the spreads and elsewhere will be appalling, and there may even be difficulty in securing Junior ushers...
...either by right reason or by revolution. The revolutionary method prevailed. The result was the immediate loss of much Anglo-Saxon blood. Again, Turgot's efforts to bring about a gradual development of political liberty in France were of no avail against the ultra-conservatives and the Revolution followed. Even in the case of our Civil War, Henry Clay and other statesmen saw it was inevitable that slavery and freedom must conflict many years before the crisis came and they sought to avoid it. But revolution sits North and South opposed them and war followed...