Word: ever
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sons are trained here, but the lesson they learn is of the little avail of wealth without the recommendation of personal merit and ability. "Harvard has business only in the Back Bay and lifts her skirts away from the contamination of the North End." Had the writer himself ever approached the North End, he would not thus have exposed his ingnorance. In the houses of the poor in this district, Harvard students seek out in person the objects of their charity and labor to raise them to a higher life. It is safe to say that in no other college...
These lectures will be of unusual interest, as they are really the first of their kind ever given at Harvard...
...best collections of short stories that has appeared this year is entitled "College Girls," by Abbe Carter Goodloe. (Charles Scribner's Sons, $1.25.) The volume contains fourteen short stories which are all equally good. They are by all odds the best stories of American college life that have ever been written. The stories originally appeared in Scribner's magazine, and Gibson's illustrations have been reproduced in the book...
...Robert Grant. (Charles Scribner's Sons, $1.50.) These stories also appeared in magazine form. The illustrations are by Messrs. Gibson, Wiles, Wenzell, and Carleton. Mr. Grant's style is too familiar to require any comment. Suffice it to say that these are among the best stories that he ever wrote and their popularity is assured...
Phil King said of the game: "I think we outplayed Harvard on the whole, although she certainly had hard luck in the first half. Harvard played a sports-manlike game, and I don't recall ever having seen a cleaner contest...