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Word: sakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...nothing of the three substitutes of last year. Yale would like to have the race come off the first of September. This would compel both crews to keep in training all summer. It is believed, however, that the English crew will be willing to do this for the sake of meeting Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Crew Prospects. | 12/5/1895 | See Source »

...Yale men for the sake of the good name of the university cannot, under present conditions, continue an annual contest, which, although generally resulting in a victory for us, has perhaps a worse effect than defeat. And why? Simply because of an unfriendly, unjust criticism of Yale men and Yale methods which have been the result of Harvard's defeats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale News Editorial. | 5/22/1895 | See Source »

...Fraud for Fraud's Sake. R. P. Utter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 5/18/1895 | See Source »

Harvard seems to be fairly launched in her career in lacrosse. It is now important that this should be made a successful one. Whatever students undertake in the name of Harvard, must be done well for the sake of the name, if for no other reason. In the case of lacrosse, however, there is much in the game itself which entitles it to a prosperous continuance. It has all the characteristics which are necessary to make an athletic sport stay permanently in favor; it offers an opportunity for vigorous exercise to a class of men who without it would find...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/27/1895 | See Source »

...record of a lofty character and a manly earnestness of purpose. Dante did not fail in the indirect accomplishment of his attempt to lead men to righteousness. In every generation men have listened to his words and been helped by them. If we read the poem simply for the sake of the poetry, we find in it a pleasure, which only the words of the great poet can give us. The reader of the poem becomes its lover. Poetry is the garb which wisdom has chosen for itself, and the lover of poetry is the lover of wisdom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PARADISE. | 4/13/1895 | See Source »

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