Word: nevers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...congressman in return for a vote than he has to give him a piano out of the public treasury. Such a policy is dangerous as well as odious. If he confines his influence on legislation to its proper sphere he can lead the people but he can never drive them. Corrupt conditions of spoils may seem for a time to cause prosperity, but the prosperity is always artificial as in the case of England when Walpole was premier...
...high jump the men are all in the best of condition and have been competing in all the athletic meetings of the winter. A man of unexpected ability has been developed in W. G. Morse '99. Morse, who never jumped before last fall, has shown remarkable ability. His record is very nearly 6 ft. and he has won every event in which he has competed, being scratch man in the last four...
...worthy competitors to make it advisable to award all the prizes. Last year, it is true, there was a larger number of competitors than ever before, but even then only four of the nine Bowdoin Prizes were awarded, while the James Gordon Bennett Prize in political science has never been given since its foundation. Lack of competition for this last prize is especially remarkable because it is open exclusively to Seniors, is in a subject which is studied by many, and often a special report or a thesis might be sufficiently elaborated without much additional labor. The date by which...
...means of raising the standard of scholarship they cannot be valued too highly. It has always been the custom, however, not to award the prizes until autumn and then there is no special occasion at which the names of the winners are announced together. As a result most students never even hear the names of those who take prizes and men who may have worked for what they thought was a badge of distinction, are apt to feel that they have worked in vain. The CRIMSON would like to have the names of prize winners announced at Commencement together with...
Many of the men in training for the crews and teams never realize until it is too late that they are not only under obligations to themselves and to the others on the teams, but also to the whole student body which they represent. It ought not to be necessary for a head coach to keep constant watch of the records of his men at the Dean's office to see that they do not cut their lectures. It is almost incredible that men should be so careless of the good of every one concerned...