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...speaker grew eloquent as he discussed the unhappy condition of Ireland. The trouble there is not in a bad land system, but in the absence of every industry except. agriculture. She, too, had manufactures once, but England strangled them, when the potato famine came, the effects were terrible. The population had nothing to which they could turn their hands, starvation was the result. The absence of alternative occupation is the true cause of the poverty of Ireland. A country which is without some alternative occupations cannot create them in the face of open competition. Protection, she must have. The lecture...
...following events will be contested at the Cornell winter athletic games: Standing high jump, running high jump, single vaulting, double vaulting, high kicking, boxing-heavy and light weights, wrestling-heavy and light weights, fencing, slow race-bicycles, fancy riding-bicycles, parallel bars, horizontal bars, rings, Indian clubs, potato race, mile walk, tug-of-war, climbing rope...
...desire to join the Inter-collegiate Rowing Association. Harvard and Yale experience in the old Inter-collegiate Association was far from pleasing. Whatever was thought to be known about amateur crew rowing ten years ago was supposed to be locked up at Cambridge and New Haven, and when the "potato-digging agriculturists" from Amherst and other "countrymen" pulled away the honors and renown from the scientific "oars" of the great universities, the disappointment was very great. With only two crews in a race the chances of a "win" are far better than with seven or eight, and, as Harvard...
...foot-ball kick, G. T. Westland, 119 feet; quarter-mile run, C. F. Ayer, 1 min. 3 3/4 sec.; hurdle race, 120 yards, ten hurdles, H. F. McIntire, 21 1/4 sec.; half-mile run, A. A. Heard, 2 min. 43 1/2 sec.; three-legged race, Allen and Carroll; potato race, ten apples placed at intervals of six feet and brought separately to the starting point, H. F. McIntire...
...potato is a susceptible vegetable. It is constantly getting mashed. - [Commercial Bulletin...