Word: showings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...LAND AND WATER, The Authority on American Amateur Sport." Leading article in December number by W. H. Rand, Harvard '98. Other articles on the National Horse Show, Training for the Half and Mile Run, etc. Also editorials on various athletic topics. Single copies for sale and subscriptions received at Memorial Hall News Stand. Single copies 10 cents...
They are undesirable material for American citizenship on account of their heriditary instincts and general character. Almost half are Buddhists and the illiteracy is very high, notwithstanding their boasted educational system. We shall expect political responsibility of the Mongolians to whom we will deny political rights. The natives show their poor self-governing qualities in the ease with which foreigners have ruled them since the revolution...
...occasions, I feel a right to direct your attention to your own lack of generosity and to express the hope that that sentiment is not the Harvard sentiment but only the immature sentiment of the writer. I do not care to discuss the various contests which certainly do not show it to be a disgrace for Harvard to have been tied by Yale, nor do I presume to criticise your judgment that a score against Pennsylvania is reason enough for the resumption...
...Copeland will show Johnson as the center of the literary life of his time, a sort of literary dictator. He will point out that Johnson was a reactionary force in criticism, holding obstinately to classical ideals and despising the growing movement towards romanticism...
...communications show this morning, the chief difficulty is to provide for men who may be defeated as candidates at the top of the ticket. The plan proposed of holding the committee elections over a day is not altogether satisfactory. It is, to begin with, rather cumbrous, and in addition it is but a half-way measure, as so many offices would still remain to be filled simultaneously. It is quite conceivable, for instance, that the same individual might be nominated for a marshalship and for a literary office, or as chorister. It is to be hoped that a better solution...