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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...senior crew has rowed on the river until within a day or two. They have stopped training for the present. The juniors have a crew at work on the weights every afternoon. The sophomores have two crews at work, one on the river and one in the gymnasium. They are under the supervision of Alexander, L. S. The freshmen have taken hold of rowing with great enthusiasm. Although many men have stopped work, there still remain three crews which work daily in squads, as follows: first, Baldwin, Doe, Winslow, Brewer, Broughton, Tansill, Converse and Walcott; second, Barlow, Pike, Hall, Clarke...
Columbia won only one game of foot ball this year, tied in two and lost six, in five of which they did not score...
...numbers and enthusiasm, surpassed any dinner that has ever been given by Harvard men to an athletic team. The fact is more remarkable, too, when we reflect that the team in whose honor the dinner was given has been far from successful in actual victories won. There is but one conclusion to be drawn. Captain Cumnock and his men were honored for their manly struggle and signal fair play throughout the season...
Lessing's life had neither the romance of Schiller's, nor the charm of Goethe's. It was one long struggle against poverty, in an age when people had not come to understand that literature was a profession worthy of the highest type of man. Manliness and a love of truth without regard to established authority were the salient points in Lessing's character. He was primarily a critic, but he supplemented his precepts by example, and accomplished as much by his character as by his intellect...
...German character, but to the fundamental principles of art. In the Laocoon he drew the distinction between painting and poetry, and made evident the great harm that had been done by the confusion of the two arts. Nathan the Wise, though written in five months, was in one sense Lessing's life work, for it embodied his views on religion and preached that universal brotherhood in which he so firmly believed. Each of his great dramatic works had its own moral to teach. The characters were well sustained, and true to nature. Inestimable, however, as was the value of Lessing...