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...imperative that the number of candidates for the team be at once increased. Two weeks is but a short time to develop a passable team from the best material; when the number of candidates is barely sufficient to make up a complete team, the task is well-nigh impossible. Every Freshman who has the slightest measure of athletic ability and who has the interests of his class at heart should consider himself under a personal obligation to come out for his lacrosse team this afternoon. The game is an excellent one; witness the enthusiasm of the graduates who have formed...
...Inca history, Professor Bingham went directly to a description of the expedition of 1912, on which was discovered Machu Picchu, the capital city of the Incas. He first told of the difficulties involved in reaching the region for research; how the party painfully plodded its way through a well-nigh impassable jungle, at the rate of a mile a day; how the problem of labor was overcome only by Peruvian police, who forced the lethargic natives to work; and how the expedition made its way over mountains, flooded torrents, and fathomless abysses...
...important point. The treatment of the graduate student under the plan is of superlative importance believing as we do in the principle at the base of the Graduate School of Applied Science. We should be sorry to see that principle lost in the resulting combination. Yet it is well nigh impossible to provide for this under any specific rulings without seriously hampering the coherence and smooth working of any joint system. Absence of unilateral stipulations is essential to the success of the scheme...
...University forwards played together much better than heretofore, while the defence was well nigh impregnable. Harvard's goals were made by Baker, Carnochan and Foster. Andover recently defeated Yale...
...attended a number of those speech-making dinner clubs--you know what sort of thing they are. Boston itself is somewhat given that way--great clearing-houses for useless ideas. Well, believe me or not, as you choose, on those occasions I heard a most prodigious amount of well-nigh inconceivable 'rot'--no other word describes it,--there emitted. Progressiveism--gone mad, we in the United States would consider it; they call it Radicalism. To my thought it was twaddle. And it wasn't the talking of it bothered me, it was the applause the speakers got! They might have...