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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that its three greatest divisions are Brahmanism, Buddhism and Christianity. Of these, Brahmanism is the oldest, but it has not as mand followers as the other two; Buddhism embraces two-thirds of the human race; Christianity includes a large part of the remaining third. If, then, we can find any common foundation underlying these three great branches of religion, we may safely regard it as the basis of all religions...
...rearranging the room, Dr. Sargent was greatly surprised to find that many of the team pictures and other trophies were missing. Recent team pictures are not to be found at all and the baseballs won in recent games with Princeton and Yale are not in the proper case. The tables of Harvard and Yale records in track events alone are complete up to the present time. This is the result of personal attention given to the matter by Dr. Sargent and Mr. Lathrop...
...Sargent is anxious to see matters remedied. He has expressed his willingness to guarantee to find room for all new photographs and trophies that may be added, and also to take care of the trophies, if that seems the most feasible plan. Herbert H. White, manager of athletics, is ready to pay any necessary bill that may be incurred in obtaining the missing pictures. He makes a proviso, however, that there must be some likelihood that the precedent of having all records and trophies placed in the room shall be maintained in the future...
...under defeat, and to try anew with fresh vigor. The danger in playing football is certainly no greater than in many of the other good out-door sports such as polo, and no out-door game is worth a rap into which no accident or mishap could possibly find...
...natural for one to think that the chief obstacle to the representation of these old authors on our stage is the indecency with which they are so often charged. There is, however, another difficulty. The plays were essentially plays of manners and it is almost impossible to find actors today capable of feeling and appreciating the parts. The attempts of some of our better actors and actresses to play these parts have been dreary failures...