Word: past
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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FEATHER-WEIGHT SPARRING.As Mr. G. H. Heilbron, '83, was the only entry this event was not contested, and the cup was given to Heilbron who has won this event for the past two years...
...Bachelder, 149 lbs.; J. H. B. Easton, 170 1/8 lbs., anchor; total, 597 1/8. '84 - J. B. Walker. 145 lbs.; A. R. Crane, 141 lbs.; L. V. LeMoyne, 150 lbs.; G. Kemp, 159 7/8 lbs., anchor; total, 595 7/8. The teams had been practising hard for the past week, and most of the interest of the meeting centred in this event. '84 was for a long time unquestionably the favorite, but during the past week '83's stock had risen so that on Saturday the chances were considered about even, '84 being still a little the favorite...
...make progress seem an insignificant thing. For, whatever we say, progress is either transient, or else being eternal, it has not as yet been able to remove evil from the world; and there is thus no evidence that an infinity of progress in the future would do what a past eternity has not done. In the nature of the world, then, evil is grounded. We must not turn to progress to find that which can remove evil...
There has been skating on Holmes field for the past few days...
...will pass over the HERALD'S mere general statements of what "past experience," etc., has shown, and consider its more positive statements. The HERALD says: "The system is nothing short of offering a prize to young men to adopt a certain profession." Now, the scholarships here in college are not given to men studying a profession, neither are they supposed or intended to be so given. They are given to men that they may be better educated and better fitted for whatever they shall hereafter undertake. The fact that out of 148 men of the last graduating class, who signified...