Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last Friday ex-Captain Wiggin and J. D. Upton, both of the Law School, went to Andover and coached the candidates who are trying for the nine. The material seems particularly promising and Andover should have a strong nine this year. It is also hoped that similar attention may be paid to Exeter and other prominent preparatory schools. There are at present many prominent baseball men in the Law School who are prevented from playing by the rule which renders a man ineligible who has played for four years on any 'varsity team. It is the intention of the present...
...meetings of the other clubs are similar to those of the Andover Club. The second club in respect to membership is the Harvard English High School Association, which has eighty-one members. Other clubs are the Harvard Boston Latin School Association, which has a membership of fifty-nine; the Groton Club, thirty-two; the Harvard St. Paul's School Club, twenty-nine; the St. Mark's Club, twenty-five; the Milton Academy Club, twenty-five; and the Worcester Academy Club, twelve...
...learn with pleasure of the attempt the Department of English is making to have one of the old English comedies reproduced here. The play, though not performed by Harvard men, would in its effect be similar to the Latin play of last year and the Greek play which the Classical department had previously put upon the stage. It would doubtless lead to a quickening of interest in the entire English play literature of the period to which Ben Jonson belonged; and to this literature it would lend a character of reality which would be the best possible stimulus to students...
...oftrepeated conviction that the simple solution of the whole athletic problem lies in concentrating the interest of each college upon home sports, without regard to, or competition or contact with any other college." We must allow that this solution is in theory possessed of great simplicity, - a simplicity very similar to that offered us by the Faculty in their proposed remedy for the evils of intercollegiate football. But a solution must have more than its mere simplicity to recommend it. It is an easy thing to suggest the abolishment of intercollegiate contests and no one can doubt that with...
...Irrigation is perfectly possible. - (a) There is plenty of water if it can be properly managed: Forum, XII, 745. - (b) Nature of soil is favorable; Forum, XII, 745-6. - (c) Conditions of India, where it has succeeded are similar: Wilson...