Word: manned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Every man in 1900 interested in baseball is requested to try for the nine...
...Every man in 1900 interested in baseball is requested to try for the nine...
...calm steady reasoning interest rather than a fiery enthusiasm, firing up one day and dying away the next. It has been based on the growing conviction that the ability to speak well in public is not only desirable but necessary for the proper and complete equipment of an educated man. Anything that will deepen this conviction, and so increase the interest in debating and public speaking, is to be welcomed; not only because it will be an aid to success in the intercollegiate debates, but because it will help to broaden the field and increase the good results of Harvard...
...stamping occurred only when the visitors were unaccompanied by ladies the practice would be less obnoxious. But whether alone or with ladies, whether young or old, a man who thoughtlessly forgets to remove his hat is made the mark for all eyes and the unconscious cause of an outbreak of stamping. Old men whose age entitles them to more respect are treated like their youngers...
Miss Caroline H. Ingersoll of Keene, N. H., has founded the Ingersoll Lectureship at Harvard, which provides for one lecture a year upon the "Immortality of Man." The fund is arranged to be used on a plan similar to that of the Dudleian Lectureship. The first lecture on this foundation was recently delivered by Dr. Gordon of the Old South Meeting House in Boston, on "Immortality and the New Theodicy." Houghton, Mifflin and Co. will publish this in a small volume about the middle of February...