Word: minors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...early date as she did. Not only are at states but two and also many foreign countries represented, but the residences of the members of the faculty are widely scattered. Then again not only the students but also the professors come from many different denominations. These, with other minor reasons which the reader will readily notice, gained for Yale many years ago the title of "National" University, which she still maintains...
...opinion that intercollegiate contests stimulate athletics, stimulate general exercise, and thus favorably affect the health and moral tone of the university." With such evidence in favor of intercollegiate contests, it would seem to us exceedingly bad policy to kill them as President Eliot's rules inevitably would. For without minor games outside of the college the university teams could not obtain sufficient practice to be any match for Yale teams, and the "one, two, or three intercollegiate contests" would become a mere farce. Moreover it would greatly decrease the interest of candidates to be shut off from the possibility...
...making this statement we have not forgotten that an alleged intercollegiate rowing association held regattas in 1883 and 1884, received its death blow in an unseemly squabble on Lake Quinsigamond in 1885, and died of inanition during the summer of 1886. It would hardly be fair to dignify these minor contests by crediting their winners with championship honors; but if it be done, then Bowdoin won the last championship of American intercollegiate rowing, and is the present holder by default...
...tone which characterized Mr. Giese's playing of former years. But everyone cannot own such a superb instrument as Mr. Giese possesses. The second violin in the hands of Mr. Roth has too little prominence compared with its importance in the string quartet. In the Haydn quartet, D Minor, op. 76, especial mention must be made of the Andante and Menuetto movements. The latter fairly sparkled with good humor. The Beethoven quartet, C minor, op, 18, was charming throughout and showed the fine retouching of the great master. In the movement from the C minor quarter of Grieg, there...
Qaurtet, C minor...