Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yesterday the Freshman crew again began work in the gymnasium. The football men have not yet joined the squad, which still rows in three divisions on the machines. The work of the crew is the same as before vacation, consisting of dumb bell work and a short run in addition to the rowing...
...Yard and Memorial entertainments, there are no general class affairs. The day has ceased to be a day of pleasure for the fellows who cannot entertain privately and this, it seems, ought to be changed. More general class entertainments should be inaugurated while the men who choose can still keep their private spreads as well...
...Generalship in argument and rebuttal" is indeed a strong factor in deciding a debate; but under the plea that the unaided planning of the generalship in the argument might be misdirected effort, faculty coaches might well arrange the tactics of the debate. The rebuttal speeches are still, fortunately, dependent wholly on the forensic ability of the speakers and are the one thing that saves the debates from being cut-and-dried affairs in which "educational" coaching has rendered the individual ability of the debaters of little account...
...constitution for Carolina, one of its central ideas being that of complete religious freedom. Emigration from Virginia began as early as 1653, the emigrants settling north of Albemarle Sound. Another settlement was made at the mouth of the Cape Fear River by people from the Barbadoes, and still a third near the site of the present Charleston...
...make it in part a memorial to those eminent and honored Harvard men. It is not often that Harvard has suffered the loss of three such prominent sons. But the influence of their lives has not vanished with them and the memory of their attainments and their usefulness will still incite numberless Harvard men to imitate the earnestness, liberality and love of what is good and true, that made them useful citizens and true Harvard gentlemen...