Word: liking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...solution to the question of how to dispose equably of the tickets to our athletic games where the demand for tickets exceeds the supply, I should like to offer the following plan...
There is danger that the glee club may forget the relation in which it stands to the college. The club has become a strong organization and like all strong organizations may come to regard itself as sufficient unto itself. The real source of the strength of the club is in the college which supports it so loyally, and to the college it has certain duties in return. One of these is to help as much as possible in the support of the 'varsity crew, a duty made even more binding by years of precedent. A reason which has always been...
...informal talk before the Y. M. C. A. last evening, Rev. Brooke Herford discussed "The Place that Ordered Tradition Occupied in the Bible." One is apt to make the mistake, he said, that tradition in the ancient world was like tradition in our days. Oral tradition in its carrying power, is in the present day very untrustworthy, but with ancient tradition it was different, while with us the faculty of memorizing is considered as merely an amusement, with them, oral tradition was law book, title-deed of property and method of religious instruction. Memorizing was a fine...
...game, it is said, may have been played in America long before it appeared in Europe, since the Washoe Indians of Nevada have a species of it, but the ancient Greek "Episkuros," much like the modern game, would seem to have the priority. The Romans also had a game much resembling ours. In England foot ball has been played for hundreds of years and it is said that the first foot ball there was a Danish warrior's head. There is a tradition that the game was played in Derby to celebrate a third century victory over the Romans...
...list of clubs we note the absence of several which were members of the old Union. It is possible that the advantages of the new plan have not been brought fully to their notice. Among those clubs which have failed to join is the Exeter Club. We should like to ask whether this organization is still in existence. It has held no meetings this year and is doing anything but effective work for Harvard or Exeter. It would be encouraging to see a little energy displayed by the Exeter men in college...