Word: manning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seems necessary to call attention to a weak point in our athletic system which has so far escaped the attention of the Athletic committee. A man who intends to enter for the games of the Athletic association is expected to be examined a day or two before the meeting. If he desires to be examined earlier he finds himself barred out by the great number of men who have signed before him and he has consequently to wait till the last moment. Now in the course of a man's training he is obliged in his trial heats to exert...
Moreover, there is an element of injustice in allowing a man to spend money, time and energy in preparing for a race which he is not to be allowed to enter. We have had the evils and inconveniences of the system so well illustrated in a recent case of disqualification that we cannot but recommend the consideration of the matter by the proper authorities...
Fully 30,000 people witnessed the final contest in the intercollegiate league yesterday, when Yale played Princeton at the Berkeley oval. The supporters of Yale predominated and were re-en-forced in their cheering by several hundred Harvard students, who were to a man in favor of Yale...
...first article in the December Atlantic describes in a delightful manner one of the most famous of the old time taverns of Boston. The Bunch of Grapes was one of those old-fashioned inns for the entertainment of man and beast about which a thousand historical memories cluster, and whose kindly hospitality, "though lost to sense, still through memory stirs the heart and kindles the imagination...
...designs more complicated and interesting. There is, however, a great scarcity of funeral monuments for fifty years after the Persian war, which has never been satisfactorily explained. When they became more frequent again, the monuments exhibit a great variety of subjects. A favorite one is the dead man reclining on a couch, surrounded by his friends who make him offerings. The class of representations contains a special reference to the life beyond the grave. All other monuments. however, represent merely common scenes of daily life, without any reference to death except that contained in the general atmosphere of sadness...