Word: frequenters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last fall. It is customary to have the winner in the spring tournament play the college champion an exhibition match. Accordinly the match was played yesterday afternoon, The games excited considerable interest in the college and there were a large number of spectators who applauded the frequent good plays. In the first game sears showed lack of practice, but after that he played remarkably well. He was in excellent form and beat Tallant by a score of 6-3, 6-3, 6-1. Some of the rallies were long and exciting, and each contestant made some remarkable volleys and returns...
Last evening Sever 11 was well filled by an audience who listened to Professor Cohn's lecture on "The Centennial of the French Revolution," The speaker said that owing to the frequent changes in government during the past century, the French nation was often accused of fickleness. This was a false charge for these uprisings are due to the most remarkable steadfastness. A nation which has passed through a third baptism of blood, while struggling towards its constant goal in spite of the hostility of a whole continent, shows a heroic firmness. It is a remarkable fact that...
...Monthly, and chorister, Mr. R. E. Faulkner of the CRIMSON. The oration set forth the position now occupied by each of the college papers, and defined the province which each paper should make it its aim to fill. The poem was a very bright one, and the frequent personal allusions were most apropos and elicited much applause. The menu was illustrated by a member of the Lampoon board, and were exceedingly unique in design...
...Sargent went to Yale as instructor in gymnastics. At that meeting there were twenty men entered in twelve events, consisting chiefly of tumbling, trapeze work and bar exercise. Although the first meeting was very successful, for various reasons no games were-held in '74 and '75, and we find frequent allusions in the college papers of that period to the lack of enthusiasm in these branches of athletics...
...first absurd mistakes in the interpretation of Homer were very frequent. This was especially so before the Renaissance, but even modern scholars have sometimes soberly offered the most ridiculous theories to explain Homeric difficulties. However, the study of Homer at the present time is more intelligent than ever before, one reason being that our text is a very pure one, better even than the one used by Virgil. The subject matter of the poem, too, has been thoroughly illumined by the united learning of many eminent scholars; mythology, likewise, is better understood, as is also the civilization of the Homeric...