Word: letting
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...Cambridge athletes, who came to America without even a professional trainer, he expressed the hope that Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Yale might stand out as an example to all colleges in clean athletic sports. The words of Washington, inscribed beneath his bust in the Union, are appropriate in this: "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair...
...Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair"--Washington...
...them better than other men. The bread that men of culture and leisure eat they owe to the farmer and the miller and the baker; the houses they live in they owe to the carpenter and mechanic; the clothes they wear to the shepherd and weaver and shop-keeper. Let them consider themselves the equal of the toiling classes when they do their work as faithfully, but let them never, in vain condescension, consider themselves above them. Fourth, let men be self-sacrificing. Let them give themselves for others and let them sacrifice the lower part of their own nature...
...proportion of Southern men at Harvard was greater in 1861 than it is now. Harvard men from Virginia, and Alabama, and from all the South, believing in the sovereignty of their states, went back to join the Confederate army,--and their names Harvard has forgotten. Let Northern men believe the Southerners' judgment to be mistaken, but let them never doubt their faithfulness, nor their valor in the cause to which they gave their lives...
...Vermont on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon by a score of 9 to 6. The game was really much more one-sided than the score shows, as Vermont was unable to do anything except in the third inning, when two hits, two errors, and stupid fielding by the second team let in six runs. Winsor was very effective, allowing only four short hits during the whole game. The Second Nine fielded fairly well and hit well when hits were needed. Stewart in centre covered a great deal of territory, accepting four difficult chances, and also making two clean hits. The Vermont...