Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...itself. "Scrub" baseball is admittedly possible, witness the success of the Leiter Cup series, but scrub football has been hitherto untried. This year however, the Haughton Cup is to be given for football, precisely as the Leiter Cup for baseball. Not only is there a chance for those who like the game, yet are not of University calibre, but there is also the opportunity to secure first class coaching, so that eventually there may be developed a greater amount of material for the University eleven...
...Corporation voted to revise the Quinquennial. The editor of the Catalogue would like to have all graduates of the University examine their records as given in the 1910 edition of the Quinquennial and send as soon as possible a list of all additions and corrections to the Editor of the Quinquennial Catalogue, 33 University Hall, Cambridge, Mass...
...single meeting last year. The loss would perhaps not have been so great if a single one of the newer organizations had shown sufficient promise to replace the Forum. But with the Economics Society, the Political Science Club, the Socialist club, the Speakers' Club, and other organizations of a like nature all vying with one another for popular support, the possibility of any one club developing sufficient prestige to even be worthy of comparison with the Oxford Union is only too evident...
...critics immediately gave them serious consideration. The visit of two American eights did much to establish a more congenial relationship between English and American sports in general, rowing in particular. Friendliness and good-will were abundant, and the Harvard victory was popular beyond expectation. The visitors were treated like the English college eights, and every mark of courtesy and English hospitality was shown them. The response of the various English crews to the invitation extended them "to drink out of the Grand Challenge Cup before it went abroad" was beyond anything ever known at Henley befor
...requirement for admission was found: "When any Schollar is able to Read Tully or such like classical Latine Authour ex tempore, & make and speake true Latin in verse and prose suo (ut aiunt) Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigmes of Nounes and verbes in ye Greeke toungue then may hee bee admitted into ye Colledge, nor shall any claime admission before such qualifications." In 1734 one record shows in addition to the above, "Whoever shall be able to read, construe & parse ordinary Greek, as in the New Testament, Socrates or such like, and be skilled in making Latin verse...