Word: nevers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Captain Goodrich is coaching daily in the gymnasium a squad of new men, picked from all departments of the University, who for the most part have never rowed before. Additions of promising men will be made to the squad and it is hoped that by the time the class crews are called out, in ten days or two weeks, some new oarsmen of ability will be developed...
...Greeks had a close sympathy with Nature, which to them was always good. Their emotions and passions were natural, on the surface, never restrained by social conventions. The perfect man was he who properly balanced and developed all the natural instincts in himself. Their intensely imaginative minds gave to their divinities a distinct idealization. Juno-the protector of the family-was conceived to be beautiful and severe; Venus was gentleness itself; Diana's nature was wild, untamed. It was to these ideal conceptions that the Greek sculptors were called upon to give worthy physical form. With such high ideals...
...wholesome, single-hearted men, he was one of those who leaven our life and whose memory the College rejoices to foster. His character, though outwardly controlled and reserved, was inwardly a rich world of nature and ideas. There was something in him that spoke the hero, though he himself never thought of self-advancement...
...test the candidates on rebuttal was three years ago, when a scheme was hastily formulated on the evening of the first trial by which five men were chosen. These men spoke afterwards in rebuttal against five other men, three men being then chosen. Why this plan was abandoned was never explained...
...very best of its ability, but its time is so short that just as it has learned something by experience and is in a position to accomplish something, graduation puts an abrupt end to its opportunity. Next fall another equally green set takes charge. Thus there can never be any real continuity of purpose. With such a complete change of personality every year, gradual, careful construction of a system in athletics or in any thing else is not to be expected...