Word: playing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...School of Homoeopathy falls to receive fair play at the University of Michigan. Dr. Palmer, an allopathist, lately gave a lecture to the students on the homoeopathic method of preparing medicines. The homoeopathists can get no room in which to reply...
...receive a more respectful challenge, that will have to be decided by those who have charge of our boating affairs. If the race can be rowed without inconvenience and without a great increase of expense, we are inclined to think that such a challenge should be accepted, if fair play can be insured...
...have no doubt perceived, I am in a very prosy vein to-day, and I shall cut my letter short, for fear that you will apply to it my remarks about the bore of reading. My advice to you is simply to play the part of a social chameleon. Adapt yourself to the company that you are in. If you can talk their shop-talk, talk it with them. If you cannot talk it, listen to them. But never assert yourself in opposition without real reason. Keep your ears open. Remember as much that you hear as possible...
...meeting of the McGill foot-Ball Club on 23d November, the question of sending a team to Cambridge to play with us was debated. One speaker said "that no challenge should be sent to Harvard for a match in the spring; that it was desirable to make this match an annual one, and playing too often would be the surest means of breaking it down altogether. He thought also that Harvard was too strong a club to risk a game against without the training and practice that could only be got in the fall." His view seems to have been...
...captain requests us to say that more candidates are wanted, and any one who has a desire to play ball next spring should present himself now at the gymnasium...