Word: placing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...oligarchical. Now, the oligarchy there has fallen, but the success of bossdom in New York warns us of danger. The great parties themselves are corrupt. Men do not get offices as rewards of merit. The remedy is right before us. The nation has made the civil service a breathing place for parasites. Restore this service to its proper condition. It will be done with cost, but it is worth while...
DEAR SIR:- The Harvard University Boat Club hereby challenges the Cornell University Boat Club to row a four mile race this spring at such a time and at such a place as may be convenient and agreeable to both crews...
Early in the fall a great amount of discussion took place as to the merits of the plan proposed several years ago for a University Club. There was a very general expression of opinion by individual undergraduates and by club resolutions, and in every instance the plan received strong support. In fact it was a very difficult matter to discover any opposition. Since then there has been ample time to give the matter careful thought, and the men now in College should certainly be prepared to express decided views...
Nevertheless, the wisdom of adopting such a policy, even under these peculiar circumstances, is, to say the least, doubtful. It is certainly stretching a point to enter a crew of college men representing a college organization in an event which takes place at a time when the real activity of the college has ceased, and its members are no longer engaged in their regular college work. Strictly speaking college athletics is meant to be an adjunct to college study. It should not be permitted to attain undue prominence during the season of serious college work, and it is a little...
...stand at Foster's is the best place in Cambridge to get a good lunch. All kinds of temperance drinks...