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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Lathrop is to start a class this afternoon at four o'clock in spring board leaping. All those who have ever turned somersalts off the spring board or would like to learn how, are urged to join. The class will meet daily at 4 and the best men will be selected to give an exhibition next Saturday...
FRANCIS BEACH WHITE,Secretary.CRICKET. - All those wishing to try for the eleven will please be at the gymnasium cage at 12.15 or 1.30 today. Every one who has ever played or who wishes to learn the game is urged to come...
...scheme adopted by the commission of New England colleges was intended to encourage a taste for good reading by requiring the reading of good books; to induce boys to learn to write clearly and concisely, methodizing their knowledge at short notice, and to suggest to candidates obvious criticisms on their style by setting exercises in the correction of bad English. The essay, for the writing of which an hour is allowed, was meant to test the student's knowledge of the books read, and at the same time to test his ability to compose...
...religion and that it is immaterial what a man believes. This is a most demoralizing and hurtful way to look at a very serious subject. No one who stops to think will deny that it is a matter that comes near to us, and one about which we must learn the truth if it be possible. Truth upon the matter must come to us largely by faith. We can give no mathematical proof of the existence of God, but still we are sure of it. We are conscious of it just as we are of our own existence. What...
Last night Mr. Black lectured to an unusually large audience, on Addison and Steele. Our interest in these two great authors of the seventeenth century never seems to lag; it would be hard to learn too much of them...