Word: growths
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Union College living at Albany, N. Y., held a largely-attended banquet and afterwards formed an alumni association. Union College has been growing rapidly under the administration of the new president, and in a few years will probably regain the position which a college of almost a century's growth should have...
...last number of the Auburn was an article by Walter C. Camp on football. Mr. Camp traces the growth or evolution of the game until the time when Harvard carried out the idea of learning to play under the Rugby rules, and contesting with the Canadian teams which played by those rules. Then followed Harvard's effort to introduce this game in the other colleges, and particularly in Yale. Much opposition was met; but "in 1874 Yale began to yield, and in the following year her delegates met those from Harvard, and, after a stormy session, a combination was effected...
...universal skepticism as to the possibility of perfect spirituality, of complete subjection to God's law. Earnest men may work an immense deal of good, but wonderful works are few because men doubt the power of Christ to regenerate the world from its very depths. The same slowness of growth in morality will last, the speaker said, until there comes a general acceptance of an idea of perfect righteousness; until men, seeking themselves, sensitive to every impurity, are willing to find the goal of their existence in true sainthood...
...article of most interest to Harvard men in the January Outing is the second paper on American College Athletics, written by Mr. J. Mott Hallowell, '88. The subject is Athletics at Harvard University. In this paper rowing. foot-ball and lacrosse are described, with an account of their growth and present status. In conclusion a brief account of the faculty regulations and their effect is given. The paper is full of interesting facts and is a very fair and just description of Harvard's present position in athletics. It should be read by all who are interested in our welfare...
...been heard in this city; and indeed, was advanced to such a degree of excellence that members of Harvard's old glee clubs, in the days when the mission of a glee club was confined to singing before the halls of Matthews and Holworthy, were astonished at the growth which the club has attained in the days of their successors." The banjo men received their full share of favor...