Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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At a meeting of the executive committee of the Princeton athletic association, a few nights ago, it was formally decided that there was an imperative need of a new base ball cage, and that the association should undertake to build one, if it could get sufficient help and encouragement from...
The stock of London street and driving gloves in the mens' furnishing department is good now-much better than it will be after a few weeks. The Society has a good line of knit Scotch wool gloves in various patterns.
In Hastings a few days ago a water tank, situated over number 43 overflowed, leaked through the ceiling and spoiled a great part of the furniture.
(3). A spirit of brutality and unfairness is produced, the brutality more especially by football. The desire to win becomes so rampant that any means is resorted to. The newspaper reports for the past few weeks are sufficient evidence that no spirit of courteous fairness characterizes these contests.
The letter in the Nation, extracts from which we publish today, advocating the abolition of intercollegiate athletics, 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...