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Nearly one-third of the Williams College students have full or partial scholarships...
...cannot admit. If the game were played according to the spirit and the letter of the rules there would be nothing in it to trouble the most fastidious nature or to excite the tenderest conscience. The difficulty is that umpires have often been willfully or unwilfully blind and partial. They have not fulfilled the duties imposed upon them by the rules. Even allowing for the difficulty of seeing the "slugging," if every man who had been seen "slugging" had been summarily dealt with this present outburst against the game would never have come. We realize fully the difficulties which beset...
...baseball cage possessed by any of the colleges. No pains have been spared to make it the best of its kind, and all the successful features of the cages here and at Yale and Princeton have been combined in the plans. Both the Yale and Princeton cages have proven partial failures on account of their size, but the Pennsylvania cage will be larger than them...
...Professor Searle went on to describe the motion of the moon with the reference to the earth and sun, and so came to the subject of eclipses. Eclipses of the sun, though generally partial, are sometimes total. In such cases the bright light which is visible around the sun is called the corona, and is supposed to be due to the reflection of light from floating particles in the sun's atmosphere. This, however, is only one of several theories about the matter. In a total eclipse, too, we notice certain red spots around the edge of the moon...
...ourselves one with Nature and which is all satisfying. The "roosts" are numerous. Such are health, wealth, power, and knowledge, things which may or may not be good in themselves and which we grasp at, often to the exclusion of all else, and then find unsatisfactory. They are all partial, and death ends them...