Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...also inquires into the conditions of American society which have developed the sports of today, and later questions the right of college athletics to the estimation in which they are held. The subject of eligibility is treated in an impassionate and judicial manner which comes as a distinct relief after so much which has savored of recrimination. Moreover, an example here and there of the ways in which the spirit of good sport is infringed gives a better comprehension of the points which athletic committees are forced to settle. To those who have already an quaintance with these principles...
...sensible than that in the present number of the Advocate. What it says is so true that it ought to be obvious to any thoughtful man; yet the subject with which it deals, the social side of college life, is so liable to misconception that it is a relief to hear it spoken of with such well directed candor...
...date $336 has been collected for the Boer relief fund. This sum has been sent by the committee to responsible agents in South Africa to be used for the relief of the women and children who are confined there in the British concentration camps...
...Jaggar left Cambridge last night and will sail today on the United States cruiser "Dixie" for St. Pierre, where the volcanic eruptions have recently occurred. The "Dixie" will carry supplies for the relief of those now suffering on the island...
...seizes Ping Pong by mistake. The prisoner escapes only to run headlong into the Englishman. Each takes the other for the king; each discovers his mistake just as the real king enters. Philippine thinks his doubles must be due to over-indulgence in wine. To his great relief, de Breeze comes to the rescue and denounces the conspirators; and the king finds this a suitable opportunity to give the crown to the American, who is only too glad to make the Princess his "Queen Philippine...