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Word: far (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...President McCosh, of Princeton, has severed his connection with the college entirely, as far as instruction goes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/16/1889 | See Source »

...April Mopes; A Condensed Novel in Eight Spasms,' is an attempted parody on Howell's "April Hopes." It is lacking in wit and literary value, and descends to passages of more than questionable tastes. A few flashes of successful realism do not redeem it from a position far below the Advocate's former standard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 12/16/1889 | See Source »

...contains in a concise form most of the objections to our present system. The writer, however, utterly fails to appreciate the arguments in favor of athletics. He claims that the prevention of provincialism and the increase of college patriotism are the only good, results and argues that these are far overbalanced by the evils of gambling, drinking, brutality and expense, by the confinement of athletics to the few men who are on the teams, and by the attendance at college of men who come only for athletics. All of these charges have been answered time and again, and repetition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/13/1889 | See Source »

...desire to call attention to the meeting of candidates for the Mott Haven team to be held to day as announced. The object of the meeting is to determine as far as possible how many men are intending to train during the year, and to give them instruction relative to the training before the Christmas recess begins. The real work, it must be remembered, commences immediately after the vacation is over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/11/1889 | See Source »

...whole story gives rise to suspicion of that craft in intercollegiate matters in which I admit Harvard is far behind some of her contemporaries, and savors too much of the worse features of American polities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILL HARVARD EXPLAIN THIS? | 12/11/1889 | See Source »

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