Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...giving the members of the freshman eleven cups as mementos of their victory over Yale last fall. If it had been necessary for the money for the trophies to be raised by subscription, we should have been slow to believe that the class of Ninety-two would not come forward promptly and generously with the necessary amount. The victory was a splendid one and the members of the team well deserve some token from the class. When we learn, therefore, that some men in the class, notably those who represent the boating interest, are unwilling that the football team should...
...Americans in Greece. Lack of funds, it will be seen, is the great drawback to greater and more systematic work. It is to be hoped that the money now being collected in New York will soon be at the disposal of the proper authorities. Then can we look forward to the accomplishment of good work by American archaeologists...
...Century Dictionary during the coming spring, and hope to send out a section of it every two months thereafter, and thus to complete it within two years, the entire work making six volumes with about 6,500 pages. For seven years the labor on this important work has gone forward under the direction of Professor William D. Whitney, of Yale, who has been the editor in chief of the enterprise, and for the past two years the printers have been engaged in typesetting in order that the actual time of publication might not extend over too long a period...
...than in the words of President Hyde, of Bowdoin College, in the last number of the Atlantic Monthly: "It is the province of the university to take men who have the drill of the academy and the breadth of view which the college gives, and help them to carry forward self-chosen lines of special study to the limits of the world's attained knowledge, and on into regions yet unexplored. Not the teaching how to walk, nor yet the easy and rapid journeying along the beaten paths of knowledge, but the exploration of fields remote from the main lines...
...only new candidate who has presented himself but several men have signified their intention to train after the midyears are over. Captain DeNormandie urges all men at all interested in the team to go into training as soon as possible, and is especially anxious that new men should come forward as candidates...