Word: gaines
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game of last Saturday had been an important one, any comment on Harvard's defeat would have been superfluous. No one could feel it more intensely than the men themselves and there would be nothing to gain by dwelling on what everybody knew only too well. The case seems to be different with the Tufts game. The trouble was not that the team did not contain the best players available; it is necessary to use inferior players at times in order to develop material, as every one knows, though we believe that this should not be done at the risk...
...Ffaulke. All gain. Barry...
...this poem beyond the delight, we gain strength and consolation, and if these serve the purpose of helping man in the struggle of life, then never has their function been better fulfilled than in this work of the loftiest of the human poets...
...Harvard Union will hold a competition for membership tonight in Sever 11. There will be a regular debate, with four principal disputants, before the competition, the recent inter-club debate having shown that five-minute speeches really gain in interest from having been preceded by a somewhat longer discussion. This arrangement also offers to candidates an excellent opportunity to show what they can do in rebuttal. The question is: "Resolved, That Japan should be given equal treaty rights with other nations." Principal disputants: S. H. Foster L. S. and L. T. Hildreth '96 for the affirmative; H. L. Belisle...
...must remember that there is no form of life's activity which is not attended with risk. We close our eyes to all danger to limb and life when questions of business are concerned. If the world can afford to sacrifice the lives of men for commercial gain, it can much more easily afford to make similar sacrifice upon the altar of vigorous and unsullied manhood. The question of a life, or of a score of lives is nothing compared with that of moral purity, human self-restraint, in the interests of which, among college men, outdoor athletic sports contribute...