Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prominent universities and colleges. It is undeniable that the modern languages are of supreme importance for men in our age of free intercourse of nations. It is also true that the modern languages have great and beautiful literatures that are well worth studying and enjoying. The classics on their part have the broader claim of being the foundation on which all that has followed has been built. They are full of the greatest beauties, the sublimest thoughts that have ever been recorded. How to choose between the classics and modern languages becomes a hard question. To abandon either entirely...
...prosperous organizations has before it, proves that among select circles the guitar and mandolin are rapidly superseding the banjo. Next Friday evening the club is to play in Longwood at a concert given by the Longwood Glee Club, in which Dr. Langmaid and other wellknown singers are to take part, and on the succeeding Friday the club appear between the acts of some theatricals given in the Town Hall, Milton. Engagements are also made to appear in West Roxbury, Worcester, Belmont, and elsewhere. Immediately after the mid-years, a trial of new members will be held...
...more than eleven men working individually. If the quarterback by his signals lets each man on his team know just who is going to take the ball and where he is going to run with it or kick it, each one of the eleven can then take part in every play and give effectual aid to the man who has the ball. Princeton had this team play well arranged. Their signals told the whole team what the play was to be, and, as the scrimmage was made, every one played to help. The trouble with their team play was that...
...result of the year it is evident that foot-ball has taken a higher standing. It tends constantly towards hard, cool, individual play on the part of every man, the whole centered in the field captain or quarter-back. Princeton was not weaker than in previous years, but the others were stronger. Her eleven played their usual strong, well-practiced game, but the individual men with two or three exceptions were not equal to her opponents. Yale, as she always does, sent a team into the field with a dogged determination to win, and as always they played a magnificent...
...above quotation forms a part of a general attack upon Harvard life, especially its tendency to lay great stress upon athletic contests. Much as we deem the writer of the article egregiously ignorant about our affairs, there can be no doubt that Harvard is not exempt from the evils which always beset a large body of society-composed entirely of men, but that is no particular fault of ours. What can be laid at our door is a certain triviality in dealing with affairs, and a provinciality in regard to the outside world, but great as has been the misfortune...