Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...condition of Captain Holden yesterday was much the same as Saturday. He suffers but little pain and the physicians say that his symptons are favorable for a safe recovery. The in jury to his breast bone will prevent his playing foot-ball again this season...
...Wagenhurst, who was elected captain in Cook's place, was injured and it is now doubtful if he will be able to play at all this season. Now Church, '88 and Black, '88, who played endand next to end are laid up, for how long it is impossible to say. Still we don't give up all hope and console ourselves with the thought that we have a very strong second eleven when it scores touchdown after touchdown against the 'Varsity. Channing, '90, has been put on in Payne's place, and though very light, is playing a good game...
...communication in yesterday's issue in regard to the formation of a sophomore literary society deserves consideration, but we are not prepared to say that it deserves anything more. The existence of an organization in the sophomore year which would be of a purely literary character might prove a great blessing in lessening the power of some of the evils which beset second-year students; but whether any such society could be put upon a foundation which would secure to it inviolably devotion to the principles which gave it birth, is a matter of extreme doubt. There...
...every thinking man who is at all interested in the political problems before the country to-day. A few young men of the Indians are at present in some of our Western colleges, and a very few are graduated annually from Hampton College in Virginia. It is safe to say that the average man thoughout the East to-day has but very little idea of the great progress the Indians have been making in civilization and general culture during the last few years...
...members of Harvard University. If we remember rightly, these same boards contain upon them words of terrible meaning-something about "prosecution to the full extent of the law." For the benefit of those who have been astonished at the audacity of such extreme measures, we would say that long years ago those sign-boards were put in place-long before Harvard had reached her position of sublime indiffer erence or inanity-call it what you will-and that no one now a-days would attempt any such energetic movement as is threatened upon these ancient landmarks. May they always remain...