Word: south
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...parts of the country. The very differences in the natures of the students are an advantageous feature of college life; the variety of human studies, which they afford, is valuable. Not only are there sectional differences, as in our own university we have men from the east, north, south, west, and far west; but also there are those other differences, resulting not so much from locality as from early bringing-up and surroundings. The rich and the poor, the extremely pious and the extremely liberal, the moderatists, the sages and geniuses and the dunces and fools, the sociable...
...cricket team plays to-day with the South Bostons at Franklin Park...
...turf courts of the Tennis Association on the south end of Holmes Field will be opened, weather permitting, on Monday next, at 2.30 P.M., with the first rounds of the annual spring tournament. As is customary, winners of previous tournaments will be barred from competition in the single matches, which, in this instance, bars Messrs. Presbrey, '85, and Taylor, '86. The double tournament is free to all. This is a change from the previous custom made by reason of the fact that the winning pair in the fall tournament is never looked upon as champion in the same sense...
...turf courts of the Tennis Association on the south end of Holmes Field will be opened, weather permitting, on Monday next, at 2.30 P.M., with the first rounds of the annual spring tournament. As is customary winners of previous tournaments will be barred from competition in the single matches, which, in this instance, bars Messrs. Presbrey, '85, and Taylor, '86. The double tournament is free to all. This is a change from the previous custom made by reason of the fact that the winning pair in the fall tournament is never looked upon as champion in the same sense...
...carried to an excess if it is not restricted by some restraining influence. While it is of course granted that some change should be made in the work necessary for a degree of A. B. in many of our colleges, it is doubtful if many college faculties in the South and West are at present willing to follow the radical lead of Harvard. It is to meet the objections of these faculties that Pres. Gilman's plan has been devised. This plan would, however, act as a restraining influence in more ways than one, if it were adopted by some...