Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Finally the landowners found this system very disadvantageous, for the landlord's share continually increased while the owner's decreased. The land was hired out to intermediaries, who exacted heavy rent, thus forcing it to support three masters. This led to a constant abandoning and recolonization, so that land, good for cultivation, became a luxury, and since the sixteenth century, intensive cultivation has been going on rapidly...
...second team has been playing a consistently good game; and, although the Bridgewater School has, as usual, a strong team, they should win tonight...
...forwards, Captain Sheehan and Wallace are quick and accurate in shooting baskets and play well together. Wallace is the best man at throwing baskets from fouls that Harvard has had on a Freshman team for some years. Broun, at centre, is a good defensive player and covers his man well, but is a trifle slow at times. The guards, Hoffstot and White, are fast and effective and form a strong defense...
Robert B. Stone '98, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Good Government Association, will speak at a meeting of the Political Club on Monday evening at 8 o'clock in the Randolph Breakfast Room, on the work of the Good Government Association...
...Cambridge was made the better by his actual presence and is the more famed by his memory, the diocese of Longfellow is bounded only by the limits of the language in which he wrote. For the spirit which inspired his poetry was that of the sweetness and peace and good will for which the whole world longs. Walt Whitman, with a genius of a different order from that of our poet, said well concerning him: 'I should have to think if I were asked to name a man who has done more and in more valuable directions for America...