Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Frazer was poor and was working his way through college. Although he did not rank with the highest, yet his work showed great earnestness. His father's ambition, besides having his son go through college, was to collect a library for him, and he had obtained nearly five hundred volumes when fire destroyed them all. Again he set to work, and had collected about five hundred more volumes, when this sad accident occured. The class of '88 of the Boston Latin school have passed resolutions expressing their sorrow at losing so promising a member of their class...
...championship of the college. The game was won by Tallant's good returns of Lee's lobbing. Lee played on the back line and lobbed into Tallant's hands continually. This kind of play gave Tallant many chances to keep Lee running across the courts, and Lee showed great skill in recovering himself. In starting Tallant took service, but as there was some wind and a strong sunlight they changed courts after each game. Both players were a little careless in the first set and there was little play of interest except in the fourth game when there were some...
...regard to the regular hare and hounds runs which have always taken place at this time of year. There are many men in college who play neither foot ball nor tennis, but who would be only too glad to participate in a sport which requires neither skill nor a great amount of muscle. In previous years the large number of entries have proved the popularity of the sport, and the slowness of the managers in renewing it this year, if for no other reason than to develop material for the Mott Haven team, is extremely deplorable, It is not posible...
...success of government management in a Republic. (a) Difficulty of detecting bad management. Impossibility for the public at large to do so.- Hadley, Railroad Transportation, pp. 57-60. (b) Legitimate differences in charges would not be submitted to under government ownership in a republic. Cheap transportation to a great extent dependent on such differences-Hadley, Railroad Transportation, p. 112. (c) Certain to be degradation of railroad offices into rewards for party service-Hudson, The Railways and the Republic, p. 327; Spofford, The Railroad Question...
...forty-third annual convention of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity is being held in Boston this week. Great preparations have been made for this convention and it is expected to be the largest and most representative ever held. Thirty-one chapters and thirteen alumni associations are represented by delegates. Yesterday's programe was as follows...