Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that the wishes of Harvard men in general concerning the games should receive consideration. The games are arranged so that they always come just at the close of our midyears. It is not easy for all men who would like to do so to train regularly through the examination period and it is next to impossible for an athlete to do himself justice after all the hard work he must do and the late hours he must keep in order to be well prepared in his courses. We do not know whether or not this point has ever been called...
...learn about great things, Mr. Copeland said, was to read the words of great men. With the exception of the first rank of our great leaders, no one could be found who surpassed General Sherman. His letters to his mother, which extend over the remarkable period of half a century, were the word of a great man telling of great things. From them we might get most truthful and vivid pictures of the Civil...
...first place he said that although his subject touched upon the most renowned period in the history of the French Drama, yet there was demand for discussion on just this time, for, though famous, it was to many completely unknown...
Classical Drama, as such, he admitted, was dead with all its faults and beauties, but it is still most interesting from a psychological standpoint for the French artists of this period devoted all their energies to the development of the varying moods of the heart: it was suffering and torment which these men strove so successfully to paint and these characteristics of mankind have always had a most human interest, not that man might revel in the sufferings of others, but that he might learn how another has endured what he in his turn may have to bear...
...same spirit dominate the other teams. The crew is already at work; in a month more the candidates for the baseball and athletic teams will be called out. But the responsibility of the men who expect to try for those teams does not begin with the period of active training. It is something which should never be lost sight of. It would be foolish indeed to ask of such men that they keep in training all the time, but it is not too much to demand that they keep in generally good condition...