Word: showings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Force," Mr. T. Wheelwright has answered convincingly some of the arguments advanced by Mr. Darling in "Partisanship or Independence in Politics-a Choice" although on other points he has not met his opponent squarely. Taking the ground that "strictly speaking we are all foreigners in America," he shows that we have a "huge, ignorant vote" of Europeans and Africans which must be trained to an intelligent support of our institutions. This must be the task of active, educated men, "of vigorously independent minds," for an "enlightened public opinion alone can master the great race and economic problems" before...
...freshman nine played its first game away from Cambridge on Saturday. The showing made both at the bat and in the field is so far far from encouraging. This season the ninety-two nine has done little deserving of praise. To be sure there has been but little chance to play good practice games, but this fact is not sufficiently accountable for the circumstance that the present freshman nine seems far below the average freshman nines. The candidates have had the advantage of getting out on the field earlier than usual, and it was for the purpose of getting well...
...real God, in one real truth, and not in the mass of doctrine accumalated by years. Man should not have many beliefs, but much belief in something. Let the essentials for religious conviction grow less as man grows older, but let them grow larger; that would not show a decline of faith, but a renewed stability...
...been making good time. Harmar, who is depended upon to take the mile run, is now very fat and heavy, but hopes to be able to get into condition before the intercollegiate games which occur on May 25. There are no new men who show any promise of ever developing into fast runners. McGuire, '90, who had quite a reputation as a runner before he came to college, but who has devoted his collegiate course to gaining high academic honors, has finally cosented, after much urging, to use his athletic abilities for the benefit of the university. He will...
...plans of the Bicycle Club for the coming season show that that organization is in a most prosperous condition The Tech. road race, the club road race, the spring meeting and the weekly run will place bicycling among the prominent athletic sports. The arrangements for the track race meeting, which were published yesterday, promise that this will be by far the most elaborate bicycling tournament ever held at Harvard or at any other college. The opening of some of the events to all amateur riders gives the meeting a much broader interest and will undoubtedly result in raising the standard...