Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...different college nines can be obtained from a comparison of the games played, the following table may be of some interest. Brown has practically finished her series. Yale plays her deciding game with Princeton tomorrow and will probably not play off the tie with Pennsylvania. Harvard has still her Yale games to play. It must be remembered that Harvard has played the last three games under unfortunate conditions...
...catalogue of the system of study to be pursued at Chautauqua during the coming season has just been issued. The courses are unusually extensive in their scope, and several new features have been introduced which will still further enlarge the well-known opportunities of the school for specialization. Among these is the department of history and political science. In this are included lectures by Professor George B. Adams of Yale on "Mediaeval and English Colonial History." Courses will also be offered in English language and literature by Professor A. S. Cook of Yale. The School of Physical Education will...
...members of the class as will ensure that all members have an equal chance in purchasing seats, and that no seats go to outsiders until the wants of the seniors have been supplied. It is not enough that some men should say that they could sell tickets and still come within the spirit of this rule. The whole strength of the numbering system has gone to pieces when the committee loses track of some of the tickets and if infringement commences, who can prophesy the end? If some men say that it is right for them to break the rule...
Although less than three weeks remain before the day set for the freshman boat race with Cornell and Yale, the manager of the crew has still five hundred dollars to raise before the men can leave for New London. The training which an eight receives on the Thames is so valuable, the improvement is usually so marked, that it is most important for teh men to leave Cambridge as soon as possible...
...foundation of the progress thus made has been in the development of the elective system. That system,- feebly inaugurated more than two generations ago, and in 1869 still confined within strictly academic limits, and permitting little real play to diversities of intelectual interest,- has become what it now is through the wise and courageous policy, which assumed great risks in order to widen the field of study on every side, to multiply courses and instructors in every part of the broad domain of modern inquiry, to promote in each department, without regard to traditional rules, the methods of study...