Word: maye
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...matter of time. Permission has practically been granted for the use of the old gymnasium building, and it is hoped that the tank will be ready by the first of next year. We congratulate the crew on the accomplishment of their plan and trust that the new tank may aid them and future crews to win many a race from Yale. The value of the tank has been sufficiently demonstrated by the success of the Yale crews of the past two years. Thanks are due to the college authorities for their kind permission to allow the old gymnasium...
...submerged during every storm of last year, while there has been no visible improvement in its condition during the storm of the last few days. As there is every reason to believe that we have not yet seen the last of winter and that this week's experience may be duplicated in the near future, I trust that my slight suggestion, or rather intimation as to its desirability, may not fall on barren ground...
...management, having been obliged to forfeit the championship game then offered to play an exhibition game in Cambridge. This concession was met with the surly reply, "We cannot consider the question of an exhibition game." What may be the reasons of the Yale management for this rejection of a fair offer, we can only conjecture. If it is because she wishes to humiliate Harvard she has wasted her discourtesy. If it is because she does not need the financial aid which an exhibition game would give her, she is better off than we has reason to think...
...religious differences between Persia and Turkey would make a great religious movement impossible. Isolated attempts at a religious crusade. like that which marked the rise of Islam, may succeed temporarily. The Mahdi in the Soudan may hold out for a time against the force sent against him. The intelligent Moslems, however, realize the utter hopelessness of an assault upon the Christian powers...
...only possibility of progress rests on the diffusion of education. The influence of Christian colonies may become more effective, and stimulate a desire for something better. Islam, however, best snits the national character. The people must have some religion, but no other form is likely to be adopted. A purification of Isiam from within is the only hope...