Word: real
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...forwards in the game with Springfield on Wednesday showed a tendency at times to be wild in shooting and to start far too slowly. The playing, however, of the ends and the point in this game was very encouraging. As yet the defense has not had a real test, for all the teams that have been played so far have shown a weak attack...
...presentation of the comedy occupies about an hour. It treats of two poor artists, Pepe and Pepito. Don Manuel returns from Cuba very wealthy, and takes Pepe as his nephew to live with him in his magnificent house. It develops later that Pepito is the real nephew, and just as Pepe and Consuelo, his wife, think they must leave Don Manuel, Pepito arrives and the wealthy uncle keeps them all as his own family. The humor of the play revolves about old Don Cleto, Pepe's father, who uses wrong words, mispronounces, and despite himself is always entangled...
Captain Minot opened the meeting, speaking of the importance of winter work in preparation for the big meets in the spring, and the real fun that can be derived from it. There is an excellent opportunity in this winter work, he said, for every man to find out by experiment to what events he is especially adapted. Plenty of opportunity for competition will be afforded during the winter, as the sprinters, hurdlers, and field-event men will be urged to take part in the open meets in the neighborhood, and special competitions will be arranged for the field events...
...scholarship of today is more exact than ever before, and it will become broader. The real work of scholars is to lay bare the problems of life and to show us the courses to be pursued. We are apt to take for granted the free institutions of this country; but we have now progressed far enough to see that we shall be required to struggle to maintain our political greatness. We threw away our great advantage of political isolation by taking the Philippines; we have changed the Constitution for external policy, and will soon find the Constitution inconvenient for internal...
...next election the supporters of the act came back in increased numbers, while those who opposed it lost greatly. The will of France is shown by this election and it should be respected. No unfair treatment of the Church has been proved, and the Church has sacrificed its real interests with the object of merely opposing the Republicans. If it could shake free from prejudice, there would be a chance for a broader and more national religious life in France...