Word: plays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Field, '91, who is now in Florida, has been elected a member of the Guitar Club and will play the mandola...
...writer of the communication published this morning makes a suggestion which is a good one. The faculty has persistently refused to allow our base-ball nines to play against professionals, on the ground that it is degrading to college sport, and to the college spirit of gentlemanliness and fair play. There is no use in our going into a discussion of the subject, for it is one that has been worn smooth. But we do think that a petition, couched in plain but respectful terms and signed by the majority of men in college, might have weight with the faculty...
...Hale's reading lent an additional interest to this charming bit of comedy. Mr. William Winter moved the audience deeply when he read with much feeling "Lines Written a Few Days After Longfellow's Death." Mr. J. T. Trowbridge, of Arlington, portrayed the pathetic trials of a young play wright in the "Author's Night." Mrs. Moulton read "The House of Death," a poem of hers, dear to her old friend Phillip Burke Marston. Mr. George Parsons Lathrop gave "October Snow" and "Keenan's Charge." Mr. John Boyle O'Reilly followed with a number of epigrams, which were enthusiastically received...
...Henry Van Dyke of Princeton, Chauncey M. Depew of Yale, Mayor Abram S. Hewitt of Columbia, and General Charles J. Paine. President Eliot responded eloquently to the toast "Our Alma Mater." Among other things he said that Harvard men were not so anxious for victory as they were to play fairly, and suggested that some other means be selected for competition than athletic sports. He was greeted with the most enthusiastic applause, whether for his sentiments or himself is unknown. Mayor Hewitt responded to the toast "Columbia," and the Rev. Dr. Van Dyke to that of "Princeton." The other speakers...
...swelling or contracting the amount of money in circulation according as prices tend to fall or rise. A composite standard of value should be adopted in order to ascertain any change in prices. The coinage of the country should be based upon gold, but silver could be made to play an important part in the form of legal tender tokens. The amount of gold in circulation could be kept the same, all changes in the circulation being made by adding or subtracting the silver tokens. An international alliance would be necessary to make this scheme successful, but the alliance need...