Word: scaling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...enterprises. It matters little what a man has to do in this world, so long as he does his best. There is no reason why a man in the humblest station in life should be at all inferior to one whose work is in a higher social scale. All things are holy when a true heart and a true hand take hold of them; above all things the will of God must be in everything...
...Hampden Park, Springfield. H. H. White, Harvard's athletic manager, has secured the park this year at satisfactory terms and has also secured an option on the park for next year. Mr. White has already awarded the contract for erecting the seats, which will be built on a larger scale, so that the seatlng capacity will be increased from...
...permission to play a third game with Princeton, if one should be necessary. It is a request which every one would be glad to see granted. It is reasonable and and desirable, from our point of view. We know the faculty is opposed to freshman athletics on a large scale. Consequently we have had for some years the unsatisfactory custom of only two freshmen games with Yale, whether the series has resulted in a tie or not. This is likely to be taken as a precedent to justify the refusal of the freshman manager's request, but we think...
...matter and clears up some of the objections which have been brougtht forward. But the main point as to whether a table d'hote and a la carte system can be worked together successfully, is not, we think, proven by the citation of gentlemen's clubs. there the scale of prices necessary to cover expenses, higher that could be introduced here advantage. It is a question if at the rates a man could live anywhere near the Memorial standard for four doars a week. However we need not concern ourselves with the success of the scheme if it is settled...
Cowper's life is a very sad and pathetic one. He was always troubled with melancholy, which resulted twice in complete insanity, and was always worried by a dread of everlasting punishment. There was for him a high wall between himself and heaven, which he could never scale. He was born in November 1731 in Hertfordshire. His mother died when he was six years old, leaving him a delicate, sensitive child. Soon his father sent him to school, and while there, at the age of nine, melancholy seized him, aggravated by natural tendencies. It was of the sort to leave...