Word: men
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...twenty-seven years after and at his death left works which filled forty volumes. Of the two, Goethe was the more natural and worked on the inspiration of the moment; Schiller, a man who worked in art for art's sake. As to the relation that existed between these men, possibly the monument that is erected to their memory is the most complete. Goethe stands before. erect, proud, and stately; Schiller a little taller is looking out into the distance while Goethe holds in his hand a laurel crown which he seems to think no man has a better right...
...games is enormous. The gambling spirit becomes so strong and so widespread that he is a rare undergraduate who believes, and lives up to the belief, that obtaining money from another without rendering an equivalent, is but a form of robbery. The cultivation of this spirit among the young men who should occupy places of leadership in the business and professional world is not to be considered lightly...
...appreciate the arguments in favor of athletics. He claims that the prevention of provincialism and the increase of college patriotism are the only good, results and argues that these are far overbalanced by the evils of gambling, drinking, brutality and expense, by the confinement of athletics to the few men who are on the teams, and by the attendance at college of men who come only for athletics. All of these charges have been answered time and again, and repetition is unnecessary. On the other side of the case the great fact that has been proved is that athletics have...
...also getting up a new size which will be called the Harvard Panel a good sized head mounted on 11x14 card for framing or on a gilt beveled edged card 7x10. We propose making this size for $3.00, regular price $6.00. This is for Xmas and only to Harvard men...
...investigation Professor Shaler has found that many laboring men and women exceed two hundred thousand hours of hard work in a life-time while the average time of life spent by our most laborious literary men has not exceeded thirty thousand hours or about one sixth that of the laboring man with only as much brain as may guide his movements. Inasmuch, therefore, as intellectual labor his been found more wearying than that required of the ordinary man, the conclusion has been drawn that not more than nine months of the year should be devoted to school work...