Word: fifteenth
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...well. "Granted, the common love of out-of-door sports, the two countries differ in almost every particular. . . . Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell, merely to speak the names in a single breath raises an atmosphere of jealous and aggressive rivalry. . . . Oxford, Cambridge -- there is an immediate suggestion of fifteenth century architecture, overgrown with ivy." In a word, English athletics have none of that bitterness too often seen here when some disputed point of small importance is held up to public view for weeks by the daily press. Such publicity, according to English ideas, smacks too strongly of professionalism...
...Yale Dramatic Association will give on April 23 and 24 the second of a proposed series of plays, illustrating the development of the drama. A sixteenth century play, "The Fair Maid of the West," by Thomas Heywood, will be the play this year. Last year the fifteenth century drama was represented, and next year the Restoration drama will be taken...
...slow uplift in German literature from the fourteenth to the fifteenth century was explained by the indirect reception of humanism in Germany. Humanism came in, not as worship of the beautiful, but as a species of didacticism, which was monopolized by scholars. The people neither received the fruits of it, nor were they interested in the resulting literature. Luther's Bible and the "Volkslied" represent however a marvelous development, which show what might have been reached under more favorable conditions. The "language sodalities," for ameliorating the language itself, are a further example of movements which were too exclusive...
...qualifying round of the University golf championship was held on the links of the Oakley Country Club, on Friday and Saturday of last week. G. O. Thacher '01, U. A. Murdock, Jr., '04, F. Winsor 1Gr., and F. I. Emory '02, all of whom made 100, tied for the fifteenth and sixteenth places, and must play off their tie at the Oakley course on Tuesday afternoon at 3 p. m. One hole to decide. The following men qualified for the first fourteen places...
...Douglas and Manuel Training Schools in Chicago and at Stone's School in Boston. During his year at Stones he stroked his school crew in the interscholastic races. He was actively interested in rowing and rowed on the second Weld 1902 crew last spring. He went abroad the fifteenth of June and travelled in Germany until he reached Munich, where he was was taken sick and died after a week's illness. The funeral took place in Chicago, July...