Word: likely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...granted him, he has to pass the same examination which other men pass and on the same standard of marking. Again, the writer cannot remember the name of any man prominent in college athletics who has since risen to prominence. This is most absurd. Without searching we remember men like Lodge, Winslow, Bancroft, Roosevelt, and the President of the University himself, all of whom were prominent in one or another branch of athletic exercise...
These people the school has refined and educated, made them to help others in like circumstances and willing to spread the learning which they have acquired. They receive instruction in missionary work, have medical and scientific schools, study agriculture, carpentry, printing and shoe making, and moreover learn the art of giving to others what they have received...
...inside life of the school. The Hampton Institute, which was opened by General Armstrong, has probably done more for the education of the colored youth in the South, and of the Indians than any other institution in the country. Students who have the opportunities afforded by an institution like Harvard, with its traditions and its long line of well-known graduates, are apt to forget that work just as noble, if not so prominent, is being done by smaller institutions which deal with humbler classes of people. Lectures on subjects like this tend to broaden views and stimulate kindly feelings...
...much ice; the apparently deficient estimate of the expense of the work; and the inconvenience to those who have to cross the field. The Corporation has never been in favor of enclosures where admission is paid, and they felt that a skating pond on Holmes Field, run like a common rink, would be sadly out of harmony with the surroundings...
Bishop Vincent preached at Vespers in Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon on the value of the Bible. He said it is like a fountain that is always flowing undisturbed by any changes, the same now as it was in the beginning. The Bible has undergone such minute study and criticism in every page, almost in every word, during recent times, that many think it is losing its value and power in the light of science. It is truly being very critically studied by the most able biblical scholars. As a result, some things in it are questioned by scientists...