Word: persons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...policy of confining athletic contests to Harvard and Yale; next the unpopularity of Lacrosse, and the proposed change in the date of the Class Races, while after all follows an answer to Tenebo's article in the las; number. Topics of the Day contains an article from some unknown person who differs radically with Mr. Leighton on the question of college expenses. We think that has position is right in the main...
...during the summer, and that he would do all that he could to satisfy such applications. As we understand the matter, the Secretary is now attempting to do in a systematic manner that which was done formerly in a somewhat irregular way. Books have been provided in which the person applying is required to state the nature of the employment wanted and the qualifications he has to offer. A large number of applications have already been received and there is no doubt that many of them will be successful. Of course it is not to be expected that every applicant...
...sometime ago, it was moved "that the attention of the M. C. C. (Marylebone Cricket Club) be called to the unsatisfactory effect of Law 24, and to recommend that it shall be so altered as to read that a batsman shall be out if, with any part of his person being in a straight line from wicket to wicket, he stop the ball which, in the opinion of the umpire would have hit the wicket." A long debate followed, at the end of which the motion was carried by a vote of eleven to three, three of the counties...
...WILL the person who took a silver headed umbrella, not belonging to them, from Memorial Hall, please leave it at Leavitt and Pierce...
...Sonnets of Shakspere, upon which Professor Palmer lectured last evening in Divinity School Chapel, are the records of the poet's friendship for two persons-one a young man of great personal beauty, and the other a woman who fascinated him although neither beautiful nor intelligent. The main theme of the sonnets is the way in which the ravages of time may be checked. The poet promises eternity to his friend and attempts to preserve him from the accidents of time. In the first sonnets, Shakspere thinks only of the beauty of his friend, and, seeing that the individual must...