Word: stillings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...terms proposed by Yale, the Cornell navy wishes to express its own preference in general for an open regatta controlled by the five universities usually participating in rowing. Such a regatta Cornell always stands ready to enter. In case, however, it is impossible to organize such regatta, Cornell still believes that, in view of the complications which are arising from the difficulty of arranging races and dates among these five universities, it would be advantageous to all and beneficial to college rowing, if a rowing association representing the five should be formed. Such an association could, at least...
...Brown baseball team has issued a call for candidates to report on January 12 for preliminary work. The season's work will be begun with the nucleus of a very strong team, as Lauder, Fultz, Sedgwick, Perkins. Gammons, Boyd, and Cook, of last year's nine are still eligible. The schedule is nearly complete and is to contain games with Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Tenney, the old Brown player, now on the Boston league team, will do the coaching...
Four members of last year's ice polo team, Captain Goodridge, Beardsell, Stevens and Baldwin, are still in College and G. A. Matteson who has played on the Brown team is now in the Medical School and will try for the team. The prospects for a strong team are very good. Weather permitting, practice will begin this afternoon. It seems likely that hockey will be substituted for polo this year. Hockey is played at Yale and other colleges and games will probably be arranged with Yale and Brown in addition to those with local teams. It has been suggested that...
...said, on account of his ardent piety was early destined to service in the church. For this purpose he was sent to Westminister School at London, and from there to Trinity College in Cambridge. Ordinarily he would have immediately prepared for the priesthood, but his desire for honor still kept him at Cambridge, where he obtained the oratorship. At the death of King James, however, all his hopes of securing a position at court vanished, and the resulting disappointment was one of the main causes of his taking orders from the church. Through the Earl of Pembroke, he obtained...
...general discussion which has in the past taken place as to the advantages and disadvantages of tours during the vacation by the musical clubs, much has been said of the pleasant graduate reunions at the concerts in various cities. There is, however, a still more legitimate field for the clubs which seems to have been rather neglected...