Word: evens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...French provinces, Brittany is certainly, even to the French mind, the most original and consequently the most interesting, for throughout the ages it has retained its own characteristics. One is at once impressed with the fact that the country has retained its primitive condition, and that man has scarcely made his impress upon it. Even where impress is visible it carries us back to the remotest ages. There are the incomparable monuments of Carnuc and Cocuariaker, and the mediaeval chapels and churches, together with the impressive castles of feudal times...
Harvard has the advantage of experience and although even with Yale in intercollegiate standing should be able to outplay its opponents tonight...
...there being only a small endowment, almost the entire running expense appears as "deficit." Of course, this and many other establishments in the University have to be maintained out of the general income. There is a distinct advantage however, in having the precise relation of receipts and expenses exhibited even in these departments
...tournament was held on December 21, 22, and 23 at the West Side Republican Club, New York. Columbia took the lead the first day by defeating Princeton 3 1-2 to 1-2, Yale and Harvard being even with two games each. The score at the close of the play was Columbia 3 1-2, Yale 2, Harvard 2, Princeton...
...said, had the crudest implements and lived under constant danger from enemies yet could get enough food to maintain himself without working all the time. The modern man, however, removed from hostile environment in a state of society which by the aid of machinery enormously multiplies production, cannot, even by working incessantly, get enough to eat, and must live in a state of wretchedness which no cave man ever knew. Ten million people in the United States are unable to obtain enough food to support mere working efficiency. They are, in other words, starving. Wretchedness itself is impersonated...