Word: likely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cricket eleven is to be congratulated on receiving permission to play games in Philadelphia. This will not only give the team an enjoyable trip, but will afford them two excellent matches. The granting of this petition may seem at first sight like an inconsistent infringement of the New England rule, but a little consideration will show that the action is perfectly consistent. As we understand it, the New England rule was made to restrict the course which the athletics of the time were taking. If the condition of things has so changed that it appears for the best interests...
...expression of the political sentiments of the University. The committee having the convention in charge, is making very complete arrangements for the convention. All the men who spoke in the Yale debate, and many other good speakers will make nominations or second them. The convention will do its work like a regular national convention, and will undoubtedly be a great success...
...This instrument has contested the supremacy of the piano, down to our own century, down in fact to Beethoven's time, and may still be found in some German homes, in place of the piano. He also gave some improvisations on the spinet and the harpsichord which is exactly like the spinet in principle. Sounds are produced in these, by picking the strings with quills...
Many men say that the days of faith are gone, that now belief is so broad and liberal that a man can believe or not believe anything, but really the broad faith is the best faith, while a faith confined and limited to narrow bounds, like that of the middle ages, shuts out the light. The broad unquestioning faith is the faith of love; there is a sort of faith taking things as a matter of course, believing that there is a God but perhaps not understanding or caring what sort of a God it may be. But the faith...
...Petroleum Launch. From the German Ocean to the Black Sea." It is the description of a trip in a naptha lauch, up the Elbe, across to the Danube, and down to the Black Sea. The syle is very bright and vivid, and the article makes delightful reading, like nearly all of Stevens' work...