Word: liking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Boston Athletic Association that it seems no more than right that the wishes of Harvard men in general concerning the games should receive consideration. The games are arranged so that they always come just at the close of our midyears. It is not easy for all men who would like to do so to train regularly through the examination period and it is next to impossible for an athlete to do himself justice after all the hard work he must do and the late hours he must keep in order to be well prepared in his courses...
...college authorities at Brown. A large and commodious office has been fitted up in one corner of the Steward's office, where provision is made for the different professors and instructors, each of whom has his own private box, and also for the laboratories, which are cared for in like manner...
...even to special students, its chief value, we think, will appear if it is used as an introduction to the study of Shakspere. We are pleased to find in it none of the absurdities of the "inductive" school of criticism, which makes what should be a literary work seem like a text-book on graphic algebra or spherical geometry. The method here is absolutely sane and sound, the style is lucidity itself, fact is everywhere kept clear from inference, and there is no gush. There is not a silly sentence in the book. What reader of Dowden or Fleay...
...candidates for the '97 crew have been divided into two squads. The men are being taught the same stroke which the 'varsity is rowing, and like the 'varsity frequently take long walks to vary the monotony of their daily work...
...discover. All questions bearing directly on student interests were settled by the Faculty with comparatively little consideration of the student opinions on these questions. The result was inevitable. The men were told, "You must do such and such a thing," and immediately the natural dislike to being treated like children brought out the reply...