Word: started
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...equal to the Yale entrance and superior to the Harvard minimum. Then there are advanced requirements in each subject, so that those who come finely prepared in quantity as well as quality may be given advanced standing in one or more of the subjects of freshman instruction at the start...
When we first see the intimacy of these problems, we are discouraged. The tasks of solving them seems tremendous, and ever increasing. But it is this discouragement that ought to start us upon the right track. We see the greatness of the whole field, and therefore we can have a just appreciation of the importance of any particular endeavor in which we are engaged...
...attractive to the Germans. Soon after narrative poetry after French models began in Germany, lyric poetry also began, showing the influence of both France and Provence. It seems to have appeared first along the upper Rhine, and at once showed itself subjective, metaphysical, chivalric. It had, however, from the start a purely German sentimental strain. The weariness and disenchantment of Walther's old age are illustrative of a change in the moral condition of Germany and the whole world. Chivalry had ceased to be the perfect idea; it had shown itself capable of strange absurdities, and clearly could not endure...
...Springfield Harvard opened the second half with a play that was the sensation of the day. It was a Deland flying start, with the same formation as the Springfield play, but this time the heavy groups were decoys, and the light groups, in the centre of which was Brewer and the ball, went sprinting off round the opposite end, till the ball was on Yale's 27 yard line. The spectators were almost wild with delight...
...will run it in much the same way as Memorial Hall is run. Each department of the university will have a representative in the board of directors, and one member for every 100 students or fraction of 100 in each department The university will advance the money to start the commons, and at the end of each term the expense will be equitably divided among the students...