Word: rather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...June after our race with Harvard who would not have gladly remained in training if a race could have been secured. Yale will begin official negotiations very shortly with Cambridge relative to arranging a race if it is possible to do so. One or two things, however, may prove rather considerable obstacles. In the first place, any idea of a race between Yale and Cambridge in April, as has been suggested by the newspapers, is out of the question. Yale has only a week's vacation in April, and it would not be possible for the men to go across...
...have been recently published of the "hundred best books." The lists are often entertaining, but not valuable. For no hundred best books can be picked out. Eight, or six, or four,- the books that every cultured man must know, are easily selected. They cannot be read for mere amusement; rather for delight, a delight that grows steadily with time and study. Beyond these very few, every man, according to his associations and individual taste, will fill out a different hundred. For instance,- Prof. Norton said,- a gentleman in England of the richest acquirements and the ripest and widest culture...
...Joinville, the Romance of the Cid, and the Arthurian Romances. In later times the number of names really great is considerable. One might give Chaucer, the freshest and most springlike of all poets; Spenser (though with a certain hesitation). and Milton,- a little, for his real greatness was style rather than matter. Among the moderns, man a should select to begin with who ever most appeals to him, provided he choose a great author and not a coarse one. It is bad to get into literature by the back door,- as witness the obscenity of the minor Elizabethan drama...
...necessary expenses of a training table will be borne by the college, the entire cost will not, and the men at the training tables have no right to expect it. We are charitable enough to assume that all unpaid bills of this nature are the result of carelessness rather than selfishness on the part of the debtors...
...second part of Mr. E. Ingress dl's description of his experiences in a trip to the Pacific by way of Canada, is given. He describes and illustrates the notable places of interest in the northwest. A short but rather clever story entitled; "A Critical Situation," an adventure in London, follows. But the feature of the number for Harvard is the first of a series of articles on American College Athletics, by Mr. Hallowell, a member of last year's graduating class. It is on Harvard University and presents all the leading features of our yearly athletic events. The author...