Word: standing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...care very little which side begins it if both are guilty of ungentlemanly play. I do not stand here to make any statement in condemnation of one side or the other, but I am compelled to recognize that this spirit has developed. It must be stopped. It is foreign to the spirit of true emulation. If the question is, what remedy can be applied? I am at a loss to answer. I should not care to vote for the suppression of intercollegiate football, but I express the sentiment of many graduates that certain things have manifested themselves that should...
...marked improvement in the work of some of the men is manifest. Several of the pitchers are acquiring good control, and their curves are much more marked than at first. A dummy has been made which is placed close to the plate where the batsman would ordinarily stand. This enables the pitchers to practice throwing shoulder or low balls as they desire, and also gives the catcher practice in throwing without interfering with or being balked by the batsman. As yet only three men have been dropped, and the candidates with these exceptions are the same men who answered Captain...
...patent remedy, no ingenious social reform schemes. He said: "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth laborers into the harvest." That is the only way to save the poor. There must be laborers and the labor is for college men. Will Harvard stand forth to its own glory for truth and justice and pity for the poor, or will it to its everlasting shame shrink back and let the poor take care of themselves...
President Carter of Williams, on the other hand, says in an interview published in the Globe, that he has a profound respect for the judgment of President Eliot and that the latter would not have taken this stand without having given the matter a great deal of attention...
...hydraulic machinery in the engineering building will be ready for use in a short time. The large stand-pipe has been kept full of water for several days to test the pressure it can stand without leaking. The tank into which the water is to flow has just been put in place. The weighing tanks have not arrived. When they are put in place the machinery will be practically ready...