Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...proud as is our boast of the advance of America beyond the old world in the solution of the public questions of the times and in practical affairs, we yet feel little humiliation that in the artistic and, to a certain extent, in the scholarly world we are still far inferior to our European brothers. Every day we watch with complacency the departure of friends "to study abroad." With unconcern we see the annual exodus of a quota of our graduating classes to Berlin, Paris, and other foreign centres of learning; and yet we know that this flight for knowledge...
...crowded with students who had met at the mass meeting to decide what action Harvard should take on the base ball question. It was necessary that immediate action should be taken, for the schedule must be arranged at once. There was a free discussion of the subject, and, as far as Harvard is concerned, this much-talked-of question was finally decided...
...taken at the mass meeting last evening. Harvard has taken a fair and decided position and has shown that she will not allow her policy to be dictated by the action of any other college. The meeting showed the universal sentiment of the college, that we have gone too far to withdraw, and that a new base-ball association must be formed. At a mass meeting held on Wednesday, Yale voted to empower her delegates to enter any league except a triple one composed of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. When Yale sees the position which Harvard has taken and understands...
...Amherst ball club is about $500 in debt, and needs $1300 to clear off the debt and pay running expenses for this season. Thus far but $520 have been raised...
...call the attention of our readers to the notice of a mass meeting which is to be held this evening to settle the base-ball question as far as Harvard is concerned. The matter now lies entirely with the college, and it is for it to consider carefully and well the questions at issue...