Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman class will be surprised to learn how its crew is getting along. Every boating man knows that their material is good and judging from their performance last fall many have predicted great things of them in the spring, But at present their rowing is ridiculous, not to say disgraceful. They are vastly slower now than they were last fall! If, after six months training they are slower than they were when they began, how slow will they be after nine months? What are we to think of the coaching they have received...
...governors. The total impression made by such records when taken in connection with the art remains is that of enormous power and enterprise. The politics of western Asia pass before us like a mighty panorama. The products of the imagination are partly mythical and partly legendary. The great poem known as the Izdubar epic seems to be a solar myth and contains as an episode a deluge story practically the same as in the book of Genesis. There are also tablets recording the adventures of the goddess of love, the story of creation and the wars of the god. From...
...guest of the evening, Professor Bradbury L. Cilley of Exeter, Professor Cilley, after reviewing the history of Exeter Clubs at other Colleges, congratulated the club upon its successful organization and predicted for it a useful future. His talk was full of reminiscences of the Academy and was received with great applause. After the refreshments the club gathered around Professor Cilley listening to anecaotes of Exeter and Harvard life. The meeting broke up with a hearty Exeter cheer...
This is the first time that a Harvard meeting has been thrown open to members of other colleges and the event marks a great advance in Harvard indoor athletics. The meetings in former years have had a purely local interest and have failed to arouse any great enthusiasm. The plan inaugurated by today's meeting, if successful now, will undoubtedly be continued and will give the Harvard winter meetings an important place in intercollegiate athletics...
...poor policy to put immigration under restriction. Moreover, it would be far more advisable to send agents to Europe to solicit immigration, so as to enable this country to compete with South American states in their inducements to immigrants. The question arises; How can the natural resources, great as they are, be employed, if we restrict a steady flow of men from Europe, who have done so much towards discovering these resources...