Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Manager Miller of the Yale Baseball Association has arranged for an interesting series of games with Princeton next season. Five will be played, two more than the usual number, the reason for the change being that Harvard's refusal to play against Yale made it possible for the latter to give Princeton several dates which have heretofore been held for Harvard...
...religion of the University demands a society to which belong all religious topics bearing upon life. The freedom of religious thought, however, should not influence men to turn the union into a philosophical debating club. It takes religion for granted, and every one in difference with this acceptation should reason it alone. The society should always be broad in its ideas but never vague...
Last evening, in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum under the auspices of the Engineering Society, Colonel H. G. Prout addressed a large audience on "General Gordon and the Soudan." The lecture was particularly interesting for the reason that Colonel Prout had himself served under Gordon in Egypt and Central Africa. Colonel Prout had intended to speak of Gordon's work as an engineer; but as such a talk would have been chiefly technical, he changed his mind and spoke of Gordon's character and his achievements in the Soudan. The following is a short summary of Colonel...
...coming weeks. If after the defeat of last Saturday any considerable number of men can allow themselves to look forward in a half-hearted way to the remaining games, it means that we have not yet begun to learn the first lesson of defeat. There is strong reason for belief that this lesson has been learned. It was taught if never before by the stubborn fight at Springfield a year ago after all reasonable probability of victory was gone...
...winner of the championship adds greatly to the interest which the College will take in the series, and to the intensity of class feeling which it will arouse. Another exciting game may be looked for this afternoon between the two lower classes, and whichever side wins, there is good reason to expect that their final match with ninety-seven will make a worthy ending to this highly satisfactory series...