Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college authorities do not want to take hold of this plan in a business like way, the students, in some united capacity should start it at least. The many advantages of some such system are evident on the face. Let something be done to realize them...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- It is proposed to have '88 establish a precedent by founding a new and much needed Freshman institution-a Glee Club. In a college like ours, there is undoubtedly need for more than one Glee Club. Who, then, can more properly inaugurate such a movement than the first class, which has entered college under the new regime, and with which is supposed to begin a new era in freshman life? This matter, therefore, is brought to the attention of every '88 man. Every man, who sings at all, or thinks he can, whether he reads music with...
...Amherst faculty subscribed $200 to the college base-ball team, thereby setting a good example to other like bodies...
President Eliot, commenting, in his last report on the brutality of foot ball, says, "None of the popular games or contests which have proved long lived and respectable, (The italics are our own.) like cricket, tennis, fencing, shooting at a mark, rowing, sailing, hunting, jumping, and racing on foot, horseback, or bicycle, involve any bodily collision between the contestants." The president, in omitting base ball from this list, does not say, unfortunately, whether he places the game among the new, or the disreputable sports. His opinion, however, can be conjectured from the fact that bicycle riding...
...poor, into its treasury. Of course, we must not and do not forget the important agency of our president, elected three years after the new organization,-who, by the by, never would have been elected our president by the old board of overseers,-his increasing vigilance, his leader-like assurance have determined and directed many of the donations. Oftentimes in the progress of Memorial Hall, when I, as treasurer, held back, the president would enumerate my various resources in such a convincing way that I felt for the time embarrassed with riches; and you owe to him, more than...