Word: rates
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Grant that there must be a natural aptitude before training begins its work; but with this aptitude training can do almost anything. Thus if the largest possible number of men were kept in training in one way or another, gaps would be easily supplied with men at any rate seasoned by long practice, if they had no other valuable qualities. The higher the training of the college at large, the less dependent we shall be on what we may call the stars of the athletic worlds and the better able to produce teams, if not of conspicuous, at any rate...
...prospects; last year we never expected anything else but success, and yet somehow we lost the championship at the last moment. This year when we have little reason to expect anything better than second place, fate should, by the same perverseness, give us the coveted pennant. At any rate the college will have in either case the satisfaction of knowing that nothing will be left undone by Capt. Willard and the nine, by which Harvard may return to her place at the front...
...their New London race. It is all the difference they perceive between an almost sure victory rowed against Columbia alone, and a doubtful victory with Yale in the race. The excuse alleged that the New London course is not adapted for three crews is a humbug. At any rate they will probably take no action until it is possible to see what kind of crew the Yale freshmen will have. - New York World...
...seniors held their class day elections last Thursday. The balloting was the scene of much bickering and "wire-pulling." Some claim that there was underhand dealing; at any rate, a number of the most prominent men in the class were left in the cold, not even getting on the class day committee...
...increase of ten minutes in the length of the Chapel service would be deemed too great a change by many. But much may be said in five minutes or less and the time might be gained by the use of shorter musical selections and the briefer psalms. At any rate there can be no better time for beginning this change than during the preaching of Dr. Brooks...