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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...communicating this vote the Athletic Committee desires to express its belief in the principle, sanctioned by an almost unbroken line of precedents, that captains of athletic teams should be chosen from undergraduate students...
...find the point from which that subject may be most clearly brought forward. It is a good plan to make rough sketches from 10 or even 20 points, then lay them all out, and the most untrained can at once choose the best. The second rule is never to express in a painting more than the eye can take in at one glance. To put in more confuses and crowds the picture. It is very important before the sketch is begun to pick out the darkest and the lightest points. Even in the dullest subject it is invariably true that...
...resolved that realizing the great loss we have sustained in his death, we desire to express our deep sorrow, and to extend to his friends and relatives our sincere sympathy in their bereavement...
...Saturday, aged forty-two. After graduation Mr. Merrill began newspaper work in Boston, where he became city editor of the Daily Advertiser. He went to Philadelphia in 1875, where he was an editorial writer for the Times, which was established in that year. When the New York Mail and Express was reorganized by Colonel Shepard he became its financial editor. Last July he was appointed to the same position on the New York Press...
...stood the test. It is very different when a lecturer deals with contemporary work; here there has been no test of time and not much can be foretold about the future of the works; there is no certainty, nothing sure to build upon. Under these circumstances a lecturer cannot express the judgment of generations, but can only give a personal opionion. Thus interest in the present is often crowded out by reverence for the past. Yet the present has its place even in study and any course or lecture on the present has its value. Mr. Copeland's lecture will...