Word: old
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this afternoon will give the first real chance to judge of the full strength of this year's Mott Haven team, as the class games last Monday shut out several good athletes. If the weather is favorable it would not be surprising to see one or two of the old records go. The men will not compete again in scratch events before the dual contest with Yale on May 12. The games today will start promptly...
Ground has been broken for the new buildings of the University of New York. The old buildings will be torn down this summer and the new ones will be ready for use next fall...
VI.Montalgne.Essay writers of the old fashioned Tatler school were wont to catch at some hint offered by their daily walk as a point from which to wind off the yarn of their discourse, and at the same time supply the material for their spinning. Montaigne set the example of this method, though he commonly found in his library the peg on which to hang his inspired twaddle, and must have his wits shaken up and put in motion by stumbling over some jutting sentence in a book he was loitering through. Or sometimes it was a derangement...
...FLINT.ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL CLUB.- The annual dinner will be held at the Thorndike at 7 p. m., on Wednesday, May 2. Every old St. Paul's man in college is urged to sign the book at Leavitt and Prirce's before Monday next, at 12 m. Price per plate...
...idea is that even if the authorities are convinced of the evil of the present system of athletics, they should proceed carefully in choosing a remedy, lest they crush the symptom and leave the disease untouched. Above all they should beware of weakening the main source of the old "college feeling," which the intensely individualistic tendencies of Harvard are doing so much to destroy...