Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...arrangements for the Harvard-Yale debate are being completed in a most satisfactory fashion and there is every reason to expect that the debate will meet with good success. The introduction of judges will add a much greater interest to the debate, for it will then be more of an actual contest. The managers of the debate have shown good judgement in appealing to the support of graduate classes and it is pleasing to note the interest which graduates have evinced in the matter. The proposition to limit the competitors for the next debate to members of the Union...
...number of men who turned out yesterday afternoon for the Mott Haven team was the largest that has ever responded to the call and it is certainly very encouraging. With such large material as this there is no reason why we should not make an excellent showing in our track athletics, especially if the men will keep up their own work and not get discouraged and drop off. As has been already stated no candidate for the team will be dropped if it is found that he is not fitted for a place, for the purpose this year...
...Anglo-Saxon mind has always shown a particular reverence for the past, and a marked tendency to consider the establishment of an institution good reason for a continuance of its maintenance and it is therefore likely that students of Anglo-Saxon origin will enter into such a study with especially keen zest...
...request of the founder, Mr. Nathan Matthews, whose original purpose was to benefit the Episcopal Church He found that those who intended to study for the ministry in the Episcopal Church rarely took more than two or three scholarships in any one year, and for that reason added the new clause, that the scholarships shall be thrown open likewise to sons of Episcopal ministers...
...second performance of Moliere's comedy. "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme," will be given this evening at Union Hall, Boylston street, Boston. The production in Brattle Hall last Thursday was successful in all respects and there is every reason to believe that tonight's performance will be even better. Nearly all the seats are sold already and the audience promises to be a large...