Word: latter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Andover has an unusually strong team this year and has not been defeated in the six games played. The Freshman line-up has been changed, Knapp taking Davidson's place at centre, and the latter displacing Rouillard at right forward...
...success of the scrub hockey series bears witness to the increasing desire of the undergraduates to participate in intracollegiate athletics. Last year the Faculty deplored the great interest shown in intercollegiate sports to the exclusion of contests within the College, because the latter were less exacting and offered opportunities for exercise to a greater number of men than could play on the University teams. But when over 125 men take part in a minor sport series after a particularly interesting year of intercollegiate contests, this attitude seems to be unfounded. Scrub basketball, dormitory track and rowing, and Leiter Cup baseball...
...education but at an early age entered the profession of journalism and became connected with the Manchester Examiner. From 1886 to 1892 he represented this newspaper in the gallery of the House of Commons and thus gained an intimate knowledge of English public men and public affairs. In the latter year he came to America where he has since resided. For some years he has been the American representative of the London Morning Post and the Glasgow Herald...
...collection, which is without a rival in this country, belongs to Mr. G. A. Plimpton of Boston. Among the notable specimens are: Wilson's Rhetoriche and Logiche, Hart's Orthographie, the first English edition of Record's Arithmetic, the Dialogues of Corderius, and other school books used in the latter part of the sixteenth century. Another interesting volume is a copy of Melanchthon's Greek Grammar. This was the reformer's own copy of the work and has numerous annotations in his handwriting...
...Prince of Baireuth persuades his sister to receive a French master recommended to her by her brother, without the knowledge of anyone. The prince meanwhile has fallen desperately in love with the portrait of a princess whom the Queen desires to see married to the Prince of Wales. The latter is momentarily expected to arrive at Berlin and is preceded by an ambassador, from whom the Prince of Baireuth discovers that the entire plan of the marriage is part of a trade between the two countries. This news he communicates to the princess, who is being held under strict surveillance...