Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...past when intercollegiate debates are looked upon as contests of only secondary importance. Victory in them is coming more and more to be considered as of even more importance to the real and lasting reputation and welfare of the University than athletic victories...
...crowded, and every blank wall available is in demand for handball. That so good a game as fives should be ignored is a matter not only of regret, but of surprise. A careful enquiry has convinced me that not one man in three knows that the courts exist; and even those who do know it have never expressed their desire to use them...
...game is better adapted to cultivate agility and endurance. During the present winter, however, I have never found anybody in them, though I have used them almost daily; and it does not appear that that they have ever been used to any extent, except perhaps in the spring. Even those men who do use them apparently do not understand the game. The so called "pepper boxes" which add so much to the interest and excitement of the sport have recently been torn away, so that as the courts stand they are merely bad hadball courts. Even at this, however, there...
...expenses at a very moderate cost to each member. If, as seems likely, the game becomes appreciated in the course of time, other courts could be built at no great expense. At Eton, where the game originated, a body of a thousand students finds constant use for fifty courts, even during the football season. At Harvard, where there are no out-door games to detract from the sport, its popularity should certainly be equally great. I can not believe that men take to pulley weights, dumb-bells, rowing machines, and Dr. Sargent's wands by preference...
...been brought to a great degree of practical perfection. In the great majority of cases, in primitive folk-lore, the origin of all invention has been attributed directly to the God or Great Spirit. His very name has in many cases meant simply maker, shaper or in some cases even potter. He has been thought to have originated every single thing and men simply to have learned from him. From the Zulus and Polynesians to the American Indians, beliefs of this sort have been held...