Word: likely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There are in the life of a college class very few occasions on which the class as a whole is brought together in a social way. There are very few times when anything like a genuine spirit of class attachment exists to make men feel that the ties of classmateship are something more than a mere name. The few class meetings which are held during the college course help in a slight way to promote this feeling of attachment to the class and a realization of what a class really means and stands for; but there is hardly anything which...
...dwelt upon that we are apt to take it for granted that any institution which stands for some particular form of religious belief is thereby handicapped in the race for true learning, and must surely be distanced by those whose position on religious questions is not so strictly defined. Like a refreshing breeze comes Mr. Bonaparte's answer to such a charge. He says...
...Oxford crew, in which he says the Oxford eight are very desirous of arranging a match with the winner of the Harvard-Yale race. He does not wish it to be understood that his utterances are in the form of a challenge to the American colleges, but he would like to provoke an expression of opinion from the Cambridge and New Haven oarsmen. The Englishmen wish the race to be rowed in September on the Thames river, England. W. C. Forbes '92, president of the boat club, says that no official action has been taken in regard to Mr. Lehman...
...entirely useless I should like to offer some suggestions to the base ball management with regard to the accomodation of the vast throng that will gather on Holmes Field on the 23rd to witness the Yale-Harvard game, and especially the holders of reserved seats in sections N, O, and P. It seems it would be eminently proper for the management to expend some money on those seats and put up backs so as to make them as comfortable as the seats in the other sections, the price being the same and certainly sufficiently large to justify this slight improvement...
There have probably been few things which have had a more astonishingly rapid growth than interscholastic athletics. All the fever of interscholastic football games, base ball games, track athletics and the like has been the product of hardly more than the last five years. When in 1886 the first interscholastic meeting was held in Southboro' between three schools, such things as meetings on Holmes Field or base ball or foot ball games on Jarvis to which admission was charged and for accounts of which a great part of the newspaper reading public looked forward with interest, - in the early days...