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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that of "The Young Sophocles Leading the Chorus after the Battle of Salamis" it would be difficult to find. Such a work is worth more than pages of description in the vividness with which it brings the old Greek life before us. A yet more original, though to us less pleasing work. is the "Hunting Nymph." Bracing herself on the hillside, she has let fly an arrow and is intently watching its sure course. The triumphant joy of the huntress animates every line of the figure. It was this statue, we believe, which attracted so much attention at the Salon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/17/1888 | See Source »

...many a fine tackler is absolutely afraid to take a man at any spot except almost under the arms. A waist tackler is fearful lest the umpire think him too low; and as for a fair hip tackler-the best, by the way, of any method, because surest, and less likely to injure the man-he has been practically shut out altogether. A captain is almost afraid to call out the old watch-word "Tackle low," lest the umpire and the crowd think he is advocating something unfair. Again, regarding high tackling, while it is not a good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball. | 1/17/1888 | See Source »

...teach French in order to teach Latin. In so doing we do not sacrifice literature to mere business, for the modern languages have literatures as well as the ancient. There exists a French literature which comprises books, poetry, devotion, philosophy, science, history, politics-a literature not less but more extensive and various than Greek and Roman literatures themselves. This literature indisputably excites the same sort of emotions and exerts the same influence as classical literature. It elevates the mind, stimulates the imagination and forms the taste; in short, there is absolutely no good effect produced by the classical literature which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oxford and Cambridge Favor Modern Languages. | 1/16/1888 | See Source »

...kick!" is a very common phrase, and the spectators are sure to raise a shout as the ball rises over the heads of the players, and goes-to the other side. Harvard kicked very little this year. She might have kicked more; she could scarcely have kicked less. Princeton has always been famous for good kickers, and she had a good one this year in her full-back. Yale kicked more than either. There is no doubt that a team must be able to kick well, very well-kick within a few feet of the point desired-and run well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball. | 1/13/1888 | See Source »

...shown in our columns on June twentieth and twenty-first last that about $600 had been expended carelessly. Mr. Balch, during the spring, called attention to the fact that the subscriptions had fallen off six hundred dollars and that the Pudding and the D. K. E. paid over a less amount than usual as every one believed that the crew did not need money. It seems that his warning was not heeded and that his estimate of a debt of $1000 had no effect upon some of our long purses in Cambridge, but even $800 more has been added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/12/1888 | See Source »

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