Word: evens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This year's canvass should be even more successful than the former one, for we shall be able to have a comparison of the two estimates and see what changes have been made. An opportunity like this should not be allowed to go by unnoticed, and we are glad that the returns so far give promise of even better results than before...
...experiments in verse "Destiny" by H. T. Pulsifer shows perhaps the most promise. The conclusion, however, even while having a good conceit, is sustained only by a rather obvious invoking of the Deity. The remaining two contributions are in the nature of vers de societe, and verse of this sort except when exquisitely done always means so much more to the writer than to the reader that criticism is unprofitable...
...baseball players of today a more finished article than the famous old star players of yesterday? Anson, Ferguson, Stovey, Rowe, White, Brouthers, Thompson, and Sunday were once the idols of the fans, yet the player on the big teams of today can show even cleaner fielding averages. Why? you ask. Just compare the 1908 scores with those of even ten years ago. Games are won on closer margins, fewer hits and less errors. Better fielding tells the story...
...captains of the various teams publish a regular formula in regard to disturbing men in training. Apparently this is merely wasted effort on their part, as it never does any good. This year not only have these irresponsible and inconsiderate night brawlers kept men awake, but they have even one to the rooms of such men and made sleep impossible for them. No further comment in such a state of affairs in necessary, as the facts speak for themselves. E. P. CURRIER. E. C. CUTLER. W. M. RAND...
...question. First there are those people who do not think about immortality, then those who fear it, and finally those who desire it. The majority of people are of the first class; they accept death as inevitable and seldom or never think about a future life, not even on their death-beds. There are some people who have simply had enough of life and desire only to rest in oblivion, and others who desire extinction because they have found this life unjust and cruel, and fear that the future one is no better. Again there are those...