Word: realing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nevertheless, adds force to a play. Action is not the one thing needed in a good drama. Thought, and the lucid expression of this thought are also needed in it. The emphasis which has been laid upon action and situation, however, has led the men of literature-the only real writers that we have-to let the stage take care of itself. The result, to say the least of it, is not agreeable. Our dramatists, counting them together, are a poor lot. One must turn to France to find a contemporary dramatist of the right kind. Augier...
...appointed to look after our nine: "We doubt very much if the surrender of the control of this branch of athletics to alumni will prove the best means for ensuring the undergraduate interest in base-ball, the lack of which at Harvard seems to us to be the real cause of her position in the league. If, when the full control of the base-ball interests are in the hands of the undergraduates, they fail to give the nine that enthusiastic support which alone will induce men to train, and do not take interest enough in its success to correct...
...more than one-half of the whole number were allowed to pursue their studies in other institutions or elsewhere in absentia. The report of the treasurer shows that the total assets of the university are $1,179,535,99, of which more than three-quarters of a million is real estate above encumbrances. The liabilities are $155,974.64, leaving an excess of assets of $1,023,561.35. The pressing needs of the institution are enumerated as follows: "A sextant, a terrestrial globe, more free scholarships in all departments, a house of aid for young men unable to pay the full...
...open air. In consequence of the reciprocal action of mind and body, to be as beneficial as possible it should be accompanied by mental occupation. The mind should be interested in exercise while the body is engaged. But how secure the co-operation of the mind? That is the real problem to solve. Very few can be induced to exercise form a sense of duty. The majority go without it till they suffer illness from the want of it, and then prefer a doctor's remedies to Nature's By the present system of college athletics these requisites...
...prohibition of the Harvard eleven from playing its foot-ball game with the Yale eleven last fall had been to draw attention to the condition of the game and provoke discussion; and that the purpose proclaimed by the committee at the time had been only secondary to their real object. This report had so far as we know, not been denied up to the time of the appearance of our editorial...