Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University makes it hard for any captain or coach to find out the best material. Only the other day, one of the best football men who ever played for Harvard said to me, "Unless a fellow comes from Boston or one of the big schools in this neighborhood, he stands a small chance of getting on a team; not because there is any favoritism, but because it takes a long time for him to get known." This is the opinion of an expert in athletics during his four years in college and since,- and it would be easy to corroborate...
...their farm or neighborhood sketches and stories that Mr. Barrie, Mr. Crocket, and "Ian Maclaren" may be most independently and most fairly judged. "The Stickit Minister," Mr. Crocket's best achievement in this kind, has a good deal of humor, pathos, and homespun truth; but the author forces the pathetic note and often disfigures his best opportunities with the written equivalents for "make-up," graduated foot-lights and slow music. The other two writers are more simply faithful to human nature. Mr. Barrie's humor is richer than Maclaren's and poor Jess's window in "A Window in Thrums...
...hare and hounds took place. Blakemore '97 and Grant L. S. S. were the hares, and there was a large pack of hounds. The run started from the gymnasium, going towards North Cambridge and passing near the clay pits. Then it swung around through the marshes in that neighborhood, crossed the railroad two or three times, finally coming out at Fresh Pond. From there the hares led them toward Mt. Auburn, returning by Brighton and Soldiers Field. The break was made at Barry Corner. A. Ingraham '96 was first, H. Foote, second, W. E. Putnam, third...
...address is intended to be an introduction to the various art collections in Boston and neighborhood, and is chiefly for new members of the University, though open to the public. The lecture is one of the series provided by the Committee on the Reception of Students...
...address is intended to be an introduction to the various art collections in Boston and the neighborhood, and is chiefly for the new comers to the University, though open to the public...