Word: goings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sophists, or, as Professor Sidgwick calls them "professors of rhetoric and art of conduct." Their whole life was spent wandering about from town to town imparting knowledge by means of lectures and long discourses to those who would pay. Socrates' life was diametrically opposite to this; he did not go about but stayed at home, he received no compensation for his instruction for he considered it a desecration to impart his gifts for money, and so he lived a live of poverty. He considered lectures no fit means of instruction, so imparted his knowledge by engaging in conversation with another...
...following men will be at the gymnasium at 1.45 sharp ready to go to Boston to play Boston Athletics: Davis, Vail, Dunn, Brice, Cummings, Dibblee, Robb, Frothingham, Mullins, Ingalls, Carey, Chew, Broughton, and Collamore...
COLLIER COBB, Secretary.HARVARD GLEE CLUB.- Rehearsal today at 1.30 p. m. in Roberts hall, and at 7 p. m. in Dane hall. Those who want to go to Springfield must be present at both rehearsals...
...second dispatch explained Yale's demand for immediate action and was that Yale will hold a mass-meeting tonight and will then resign before the Princeton game. The motion before the meeting was here amended so that Harvard should withdraw unconditionally and independently and that the withdrawal should go into effect after the last game of the season...
...discussion the motion as amended was passed, and the meeting adjourned. Following are verbatim, the two motions carried last night. I. Moved, seconded and carried that the Harvard delegate is instructed to tender to the Intercollegiate Foot Ball association the resignation of Harvard from that association, said resignation to go into effect after the last game of this season...