Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...half-mile and the mile run respectively. Mandel, '89, and Bell, '90 are very good men for the hurdles, the former having won one of these events last year. For the mile walk, Howe, '91, and Bates, '92, are the only men now in training, but Wright, Harvard's great walker, is expected back to college in May. Davis, '91, Brown, '91, and Greenleaf are all showing up well for the bicycle race. The prospects for a good tug of war team are very bright, as an unusually large number of candidates have presented themselves for practice. The men work...
...Hastings and in the yard are drawn by subfreshmen. On the other hand there are many men who have tried for three or four years and have not succeeded in getting into the yard. This is obviously unjust. The advantages and conveniences of a college room are so great that every student is eager to get one. Naturally this desire does not decrease toward the end of the course. It is very exasprerating for men who have tried year after without success, to see the best rooms go to men who have not yet entered college, many of whom have...
...race was hard fought throughout and intensely exciting. The freshmen and Mr. Alexander, who has been coaching them, deserve great credit for their excellent showing in the race...
...this, differs from all other forms of government. Under the second head he read a short passage from Professor Sumner of Yale, to the effect that the lobby and its evils are fatal in their indifference to true democratic government. Mr. Torrey cited in support of this statement the great amounts of money which at every election are used in influencing voters and to defeat the very purposes of a democratic form of government...
...This local commemoration of one great event in the life of Washington and of the United States is well, but it is nothing compared with the incessant memorial of him which the schools and colleges of the country maintain from generation to generation...