Word: frequenting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...instructions given at mass meeting last autumn, and accepted. The association then went on, as usual, to elect officers. There seemed to be no question of dissolving the association or of any attempt on the part of any of the colleges to bulldoze another. All the talk, so frequent in the newspapers of late, of the necessity of giving up a league, and of Yale's or Princeton's disadvantage under the new arrangement, was needless. The case of the Baseball Association, cited as a parallel, had no application; for the constitution of that association provided for its dissolution...
...baseball season is well under way, and opportunity has been given during the past two weeks for observing the general play of the nine which is to represent Harvard this season. Changes in the make-up of the team have necessarily been frequent, and there can be no complaint, as far as the university nine is concerned, that every candidate has been given a fair chance. The material this year has been unusually abundant, and for that reason the task of selecting the proper players has been a more than ordinarily hard one. The nine as present constituted, however...
...annual race-meet on the same general plan as the one held last year by the H. B. C.; will arrange team races with all the principal colleges, if possible (and there is no reason to doubt that it will be); and will hold semi-annual road races, and frequent hare and hounds runs, open to the university. It will also probably establish records, and give record medals, for other distances besides those governed...
...this effort on our part has not met with great success, chiefly, we believe, because the instructors have not understood our position. We take this opportunity of stating again that our columns are open to all members of the university, and graduates as well, and we hope to receive frequent communications from them...
...real cause for the Spanish Armada was the bitter hatred that existed between the two great religious sects, the Protestants and Catholics. The age, too, was one in which revolutions and great fanatic movements were not only frequent but popular. But the preparations received their final stimulus from the execution of Mary, Queen of Scotts. Before her death she had bequeathed her right to the English crown to Philip II., now king of Spain. The assistance which the revolted Netherlands had received from the English still further roused the Spaniards against them...