Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...School at Athens needs a fund of at least $100,000, to enable it to pay a proper salary to its director, to keep its library abreast of constantly advancing requirements, to meet other annual expenses, to take its due part occasionally in exploration and excavation, and to publish the results of its work. While the older French and German schools at Athens have been maintained for many years by the liberality of the two governments which founded them, we are proud to feel that we have a never-failing source of beneficence, richer and wiser in its liberality than...
...Germany have long been in the field. France has her School and Germany her Institute; and even America has forestalled us in this race. That new country, notwithstanding the vast and absorbing interests of the present, notwithstanding the boundless hopes of the future, has been eager to claim her part in the heritage. While all the civilized nations of the world, one after another, have established their literary councils in Athens, shall England alone be unrepresented at the centre of Hellenic culture...
...designating cheer, the 'Rah!' was adopted. Probably it had been known in college before, much as the CRIMSON cheer is known here now. Perhaps it originated in the custom of cheering the name of every man in the class when his name was read in the old 'commencement part' lists. Well-known fellows got a full 'Hurrah!', but the cheering was perfunctory in the case of most men and naturally was abbreviated to 'rah!'" If this was the origin the cheer was, most likely, somewhat known before the war. The college cheer has never been used as the recognized cheer...
...approaches the hall he encounters several boys who act as skirmishers, and if he gets past them he is met by the main body of boys who rush at him with a howl and inform him of the sole reliableness of the paper which happens to comprise the greater part of their stock. The boys seem to think that students come to the hall to amuse them and that it was built for their especial play-ground...
...will also send delegates and enter the new league. The leading base-ball men of Yale have been from the first strongly in favor of the triple league, and their action in the matter has been perfectly honest and straightforward, but they were hampered by the feelings of a part of the college and of the graduates. Now the committee have full power and they have decided to enter the new league in spite of violent opposition from a number of men in college. For Yale has been placed in an extremely unfortunate position by the action of Princeton...