Word: liking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...golf team leaves for New York to play in the intercollegiate tournament which is to held there on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week. On Wednesday will be the individual eighteen-hole medal competition, and on Thursday and Friday the team matches. The matches are to be conducted like the matches in a tennis tournament, that is, the Iosers dropping out each time...
...mistaken conception that the purpose of the University is to teach men the useful and practical in life. On the contrary the true object of a university is to educate the minds committed to its charge in the broadest manner possible, to store the mind with knowledge and culture. Like life, the university teaches not directly but by indirection. In after experience with the world a man can build on this broad and sure foundation. It is this general culture which has given to England and the world that most remarkable man of the age-Mr. Gladstone...
There are scores of men in public life in England today, said Mr. Lehmann, who, like Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Asquith and Sir William Harcourt, owe much of their success as public speakers to the fact that they took part in these Union debates while at college. Here they acquired an excellent training by addressing large and heterogeneous gatherings, which cannot be acquired by speaking before smaller though more intellectual societies. Mr. Lehmann hoped that in the near future some such organization as the University Club might do for Harvard what these clubs have done for Oxford and Cambridge, not only...
...Maclaren type, dealing with life in a manufacturing town in the West. The one thing which makes itself almost painfully apparent throughout is the cynicism of the author. In a sarcastic manner she sneers at the existing social system, and in a covert way advances the ideas of socialism. Like much else that has been written, it treats the world as being all wrong, all employers being grinding oppressors and all poor men injured and down-trodden. The general impression left by the book is one of gloom and foreboding...
HANDSOME matched pair for sale.- Perfectly matched pair jet black pacing mares, excellent breeding, seven and eight years old, 1900 pounds, safe and sound and drive like one horse. Great roaders. One has been used by a lady under the saddle. One has a record of 2.11 1-2, other 2.26. Address, Box 2, Cambridge, Mass...