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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...room, Arthur James Cumnock, 91, was unanimously re-elected captain of the eleven for 1890. The following men attended the meeting: Crosby, Hutchinson, Hallowell, Stickney. P. Trafford, Tilton, Upton, Cranston, Blanchard, Dean, Fearing, Lee, Saxe, B. Trafford. Mr. Higginson has invited the eleven to attend a dinner at his home on Common wealth Avenue this evening...
...Writer." The history of the German people in the sixteenth century, said Professor Francke, was wonderfully strange and sad. At the beginning of the century Germany stood at the head of the movement for truth and light; at the end, the Catholic church was there, in the very home of Protestantism, slowly and surely gaining ground. The chief reason for this was that the question of reforming the church was becoming political. When Luther left the Diet of Worms the heart of the people went with him. Princes, cities, and peasantry all took up the new teaching. But there...
...calls them "professors of rhetoric and art of conduct." Their whole life was spent wandering about from town to town imparting knowledge by means of lectures and long discourses to those who would pay. Socrates' life was diametrically opposite to this; he did not go about but stayed at home, he received no compensation for his instruction for he considered it a desecration to impart his gifts for money, and so he lived a live of poverty. He considered lectures no fit means of instruction, so imparted his knowledge by engaging in conversation with another in the market place...
...Williams succeeded in keeping the lead until the third lap when Bailey made a good spurt and took the lead which he held to the finish, making the distance in 34 minutes, 46 seconds. On the last lap Barron and Davis passed Williams and kept this position until the home stretch when Williams by a good spurt passed Davis, and finished less than a foot behind Barron. The first three men will receive cups. Bailey will also have a cup for the fastest time. Mr. R. H. Davis, '91, acted as referee...
...superb. Princeton played a rough game throughout but the eleven was weakened very little by the loss of the men who were ruled off for foul play. Harvard's work was a trifle stronger than Princeton's in the first half, while in the second, every man on the home team weakened perceptibly, and the Princeton men got through Harvard's rushline without trouble. It is a question to what was due Harvard's weakening in the last third of the game but the great fault seemed to be that the men were not trained to play such a long...