Word: falle
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very good plan was adopted by the freshmen in the fall, of electing only temporary officers for their class base-ball association, with a view to getting better acquainted with their men. An election of permanent officers was held last Monday evening, at which McClintock was elected president; Howard, vice-president; Bayard, secretary and treasurer; Bailey, Sheff., treasurer, Mr. McClintock, however, resigned, and Mr. Bovey was elected president in his place...
Jonas G. Clark, one of the wealthiest men in central Massachusetts, has signified his intention to found and endow a university in this city, which ambitious scheme shall not fall behind Yale or Harvard. It has been hinted about town for several weeks that Mr. Clark had in contemplation some great gift for the city, but the public did not learn what it really is until to-day, when a petition was filed in the legislature, asking for a special act of incorporation for the Clark University. This petition asks for an act of incorporation establishing at Worcester an institution...
...prizes for the handicap meeting of last fall are cups like those given for the winter months...
Christianity aims at two things, to perfect man, and to perfect society. Society progresses through the harmonious working of two factors, the individual and the community. The low estimate put upon the individual was one of the causes of the fall of the Greek republics. One danger lies in the tendency to subordinate the state to the individual. Passing to the christian conception of the world, the speaker emphasized the idea that when we speak of the kingdoms of this world as destined to become the kingdoms of our Lord, we mean not merely China and Japan, but the kingdoms...
...among the many faces whom we saw in the meeting room, there were not enough freshmen; this is a pity. If we remember well the freshman meets last fall were unusually spirited; and there were at that time and probably are yet - unless they have had a misunderstanding with the office - a considerable number of very promising athletes in the class of '90. The freshmen have done well in setting their tug of-war team to practice so early, but they should have as much pride in the University's glory as their own, and especially as to win glory...