Word: following
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...clock today the crew will start for New London. The most of us will not see them again until next fall, and then the great race will either have been won or lost. From now on until the final day we shall follow their fortunes with the deepest interest. Although many miles from the University for whose honor they are working, the crew may feel that their progress will be anxiously watched. It will excite the same feelings of pride as if we were actual spectators of their efforts. We all wish them the best of good luck and shall...
...course next year somewhat the same as one just ended. It will be voluntary as before and held only during the more quiet months, probably from December until the Easter recess. The character of the course will not be a definite one, at least not so far as to follow out a fixed line of thought. It is to be a series of informal talks conducted on a plan and with topics very similar to those in the course which proved so popular this spring. The range of subjects will be a wide one, appealing to many different tastes...
...first place there was nothing novel in that proposal. The Yale and, Harvard nines have repeatedly played off a tie after Commencement Day. Indeed until Yale declined last year to follow the uniform precedents of twenty years, no question was ever raised as to the propriety of an arrangement like that proposed by us. Nor do we see how it could be more difficult for your nine to play ball as late as the Thursday or the Saturday of Commencement week than it is for your crew to row on Friday of that week...
...with a decidedly more liberal spirit. She aimed to preserve a plan by which thoroughly representative teams could be had by any and every college. To do this she attempted no compulsory measures, but adopted her own regulations for the purification of athletics, leaving it for others to follow or not as they pleased. This policy commended itself to the majority of colleges and universities in this portion of the country. The University of Pennsylvania, which would have been, under the undergraduate rule. the most crippled of any of the colleges, was probably the most in sympathy with Harvard...
...follow Christ will do two things, it will help men to keep straight themselves and it will help other men to keep straight The education of the world has been done by Christianity, and America, in its politics, in its commerce sorely needs the influence of strong and right-minded men today. It is not that men who do not follow Christ are always sinful, but they are always wasteful. They live out of the main current of history. The grandest truths are not to be entrusted to the poorest specimens of manhood. They need and must have strong...