Word: kindness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...experience for the individuals concerned, but also a strong incentive to others to join the clubs. Hardly any field of college activity promises so much in return for steady application as does debating. There are few men indeed who can not expect to attain a reasonable proficiency in this kind of speaking, if they choose to try. The function of the clubs in the lower classes is to supply the opportunity, and they are well fitted to furnish preliminary training and to act as a school for future 'Varsity debaters...
...building can be rearranged and the upper part fitted up for some purpose useful to the teams or the Student Athletic Association. It will aid a decision on the best arrangement of the heating system of both Locker Building and Ball Cage, if members of the University will be kind enough to address the chairman of the committee on the subject...
...boat. An eighth of a mile from the line it was nose and nose. Now one crew had the lead, now the other. Coleman who rowed in Goodrich's boat unfortunately slipped his stretcher but kept on pluckily in time with the rest. Very gradually and by the hardest kind of driving Perkins's men finally lifted their boat ahead, crossing the finish line just eight feet before Capt. Goodrich's crew...
Conversely, Harvard ought to reciprocate in kind. Each should suffer silently from mistaken policies...
...wish to thank the House Committee of Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania, for their kind invitation to Harvard men. Pennsylvania has always treated visitors from Cambridge with the utmost cordiality, and the hearty reception accorded Harvard men in Philadelphia has been a pleasant feature of past contests there between the two universities. It is a matter of regret that owing to the change of arrangements Harvard is unable this fall to take her turn as host, but a welcome opportunity will come later to make some return for the hospitality offered her this year as well as last...