Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...allowance for your services, but we merely wanted to have a limit on the amount of the expenses of the players so that they would not lead us into extravagant expenses. For them to consider that you and your friends who went to England at the expense of our firm are Professionals, is just about the same as to consider that every College Club player who travels at the expense of his club is a Professional, and that every rowing man whose expenses for training are paid by his college is a Professional also...
...paper and composed his "Robbers" a play laid in the fields and woods of Germany. At this time his condition was most wretched but with the assistance of friends he was enabled to continue his literary work. Then the professorship of history at Jena put him on a firm financial standing and allowed him to marry, yet he still continued his writing which resulted in the production of the Revolt of the Spanish Netherlands, the Thirty years War and many others...
...fears, however, that the students were influenced just as much by pique at a college which has just defeated Harvard as by any desire for purity in athletics. In regard to the withdrawal from the league, Harvard's position is "frank and honorable." The resolution to withdraw is a firm "declaration on Harvard's part that she has become dissatisfied with the state of intercollegiate athletics" Harvard does not profess to be much better than her neighbors; she confesses her sins, and, as some one must make a stand, she does it. The second resolution, however, undoes everything the first...
Harvard men will receive careful attention at the wardrooms of the new firm of The Alexander Co., 26 West street, Boston, and will find there all the latest novelties in gold and silver, and a selected stock of diamonds, watches, ivory and leather goods, and umbrellas, Special attention given prize cups and medals...
Harvard men will receive careful attention at the wardrooms of the new firm of The Alexander Co., 26 West street, Boston, and will find there all the latest novelties in gold and silver, and a selected stock of diamonds, watches, ivory and leather goods, and umbrellas. Special attention given to prize cups and medals...