Word: reals
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...weeks remain before the day set for the annual freshman athletic games, it is imperative that all freshmen who intend to compete for the championship of the class should begin training at once. If the result of the games is to show anything like the real strength of Ninety-eight in track and field sports more men must begin work under Mr. Lathrop. There are doubtless many men in the class who are not physically able to play football, yet who feel they would like to do something this fall in athletics. To such the track offers the greatest chance...
...else can, not only that there is a best way, but that it is the only way. Those who have tried it know too well how easy it is to grasp the verbal meaning of a sentence or of a verse. That is the bird in the hand. The real meaning, the soul of it, that which makes it literature and not jargon, that is the bird in the bush which tantalizes and stimulates with the vanishing glimpses we catch of it as it flits from one to another lurking-place...
...sign is that by doing so we get something which practically no one else can get or something to which an association is attached. Does it make any difference whether it is the sign of a well-known storekeeper or that of the athletic manager? If there is any real objection to stealing the sign in question, it ought also to apply to the stealing of any other sign whatsoever. Respectfully...
...foundation of the progress thus made has been in the development of the elective system. That system,- feebly inaugurated more than two generations ago, and in 1869 still confined within strictly academic limits, and permitting little real play to diversities of intelectual interest,- has become what it now is through the wise and courageous policy, which assumed great risks in order to widen the field of study on every side, to multiply courses and instructors in every part of the broad domain of modern inquiry, to promote in each department, without regard to traditional rules, the methods of study...
There has been a great deal of discussion, he said, as to whether the Troy of Homer was a real city, and if so, where its site was to be found. In 1873 Professor Schlieman began excavations on a hill overlooking the Plain of Troy in the northwest of Troad. In the centre of the hill he found the ruins of six cities, built one upon the other. The oldest of these cities was probably built about 2000 B. C. Later work among the ruins has shown the existence of three other settlements. The last of these was the Roman...