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Miss Mary Dickens, grand-daughter of the novelist has gone on the stage to earn her livelihood...
...competition, or for a stake, or for public money, or for gate money, or under a false name; or with a professional for a prize, or where gate money is charged; nor has ever, at any period of his life, taught or pursued athletic exercises as a means of livelihood...
...fact that the Harvard or Princeton faculties have endeavored to suppress athletics at their respective colleges. What they did try to do was to endeavor to draw a line between gentlemen who play base-ball for sport and professionals who make the game a means of earning their livelihood. Their object was to prevent as far as possible the entrance of any of the many objectionable features of professionalism into college sports. Their purpose was a laudable one and they would have succeeded had it not been for the unfortunate action of the Yale faculty, in refusing, as they...
...liner of the Post, who delights in expatiating on the "bumptiousness" of college students, must lament over the present quiet and lamb-like behavior universally displayed by collegians. We pity the poor man and vainly wonder to what occupation he has turned his marked talents to gain a livelihood. He, alas, has missed one beautiful opportunity. We refer to the recent hazing affair at Trinity, which he suffered to pass by unnoticed, and at which he might have hurled, with great effect, the bolts of anathema from his elevated and important seat, and, by a vigorous two-column editorial, have...
...Perry remarked upon the close connection of authorship with politics at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and its bad effects on literary production. Fulsome dedications and political services in the way of adulation and satiric composition were the chief claims to patronage and the means of gaining a livelihood. With Sir Robert Walpole the Augustan age of English literature ceased, and authorship became so precarious an avocation that many authors were reduced to the extremest straits and to absolute want...