Word: purest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...there has been a growing tendency for athletes to enter the university as special students, taking a minimum of courses and devoting their main energies to athletics. Such men have of course always complied with the technical rules of eligibility framed by the various intercollegiate associations, but hereafter the purest amateurism will be enforced instead of mere technical compliance...
...etchings on the heaviest India paper (a separate book with this Ed. gives portraits and histories of the artists selected, nearly all being medalists) making this Ed. by all odds the most beautiful and artistic Balzac extant. Translated by one person throughout and conceded by experts not only the purest translation but the most ideally French ever produced. The paper is the famous Riesdel, Hamburg, every page having the monogram H. De. B. in the water line. The binding a polished buckram, more durable than leather and of one uniform and lasting color. This superb set is published...
...etchings on the heaviest India paper (a separate book with this Ed. gives portraits and histories of the artists selected, nearly all being medallists) making this Ed. by all odds the most beautiful and artistic Balzac extant. Translated by one person throughout and conceded by experts not only the purest translation but the most ideally French ever produced. The paper is the famous Riesdel, Hamburg, every page having the monogram H. De. B. in the water line. The binding a polished buckram, more durable than leather and of one uniform and lasting color. This superset is published in 40 vols...
...greatest interest is being taken in the coming Yale-Cambridge games, which are to take place on Manhattan field on Oct. 5, not only by the Yale undergraduates, but by all the athleticpublic, believing that College games of this nature present the best and purest form of amateur sport. Yale is doing everything to make the meeting worthy of an international name; one to which the Englishmen will look back with pleasure. In this the college has had the firm support of the alumni, and there is no doubt that the event will be as brilliant from a social...
...believe that the study of imaginative literature tends to sanity of mind, and to keep the Caliban Common Sense, a very useful monster in his proper place from making himself King over us. It is the study of order, proportion, arrangement, of the highest and purest Reason. It teaches that chance has less to do with success than forethought, will and work...