Word: old
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Colonel Winslow is at present out of town but he will commence coaching April first. During his absence L. A. Frothingham and J. Highlands have charge of the men and are assisted by several old players now in the law school...
...changes in University Hall, proposed by President Eliot in his report, will probably be carried out, though as yet no definite action has been taken. President Eliot calls attention to the need of a larger room for Faculty meetings and proposes to restore the old University Hall chapel for this purpose. This would necessitate taking away the partition between the present meeting room and the adjacent room in the other entry, and also the two floors above. These changes will give a room of sufficient size for the Faculty meetings, and having much better ventilation, that of the present room...
...because I know that a great many of them are anxious to get an expression of undergraduate sentiment on the matter. If there is a single, faint glimmer of hope for football at Harvard, it lies in an emphatic expression of opinion from a large number of graduates, both old and young. But as long as we who are in college seem indifferent - we who are the ones immediately affected by the Faculty's action - how can we expect graduates to muster enthusiasm...
...body, - should fight for the game sturdily and without yielding, even if the growth of this seemly undergraduate modesty be checked. For the question is not alone between the Faculty and the students; it is besides, between the Faculty and a very large body of graduates, many of them old and some of them experienced. The feeling among the alumni of this city, with whom I have come in contact, is that the present evils in the game of football are in no wise an essential part of the sport, and can, therefore, be eradicated by some such means...
About this time the Italian cities began to increase in material prosperity, and this growth was accompanied by wider intellectual life. During the early part of this thirteenth century, love was the one theme of all the poets, but later they began to treat the old themes with new expression, and also to take up new subjects, such as religion, politics, and morality. The first great poet who wrote in the sweet, new style, as Dante called it, was Guido Guinicelli, whom Dante has honored in his Divine Comedy by calling him his father and the father of his betters...