Word: talkeing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Four enterprising freshmen have purchased a barge and are practising daily on the river. There is some talk of entering them in the intercollegiate regatta at Lake Quinsigamond...
...explained if all the circumstances are taken into account. How is it possible for an athletic team with no money to support it and with no sympathy from the college to encourage it, to compete with teams which have all the money and support necessary? If those men who talk about our "hard luck" or "our poor team" will compare the way they treat their team with the way the other colleges treat their athletic representatives, the results will be very easily accounted for. The Harvard team went to New York the day before the game and stopped...
...kind being received or sent, the matter is as far off in the future as it was months ago. It is possible that the Englishmen are awaiting the result of the Yale-Harvard race before making definite plans, but this is unlikely. The probable reason for this extended talk without results is the fact that so serious an undertaking as the sending a crew to America is not a matter to be decided in haste. Yet on the other hand so much discussion on both sides of the water is not for nothing. The question is, Will Cambridge arrive...
...large collection of specimens of Massachusetts Birds, particularly the Summer visitors, has been placed at the disposal of the Natural History Society to illustrate Mr. William Brewster's talk to night. Mr. Brewster will give particular attention to the birds that are with us throughout the year and to our summer visitors, and will accompany his talk with some directions for the collecting of birds and eggs. Owing to the considerable number of Amateur ornithologists in college active in collecting, the talk comes very opportunately with the pleasant weather for outdoor work...
...when breathed in by those who work upon antiquities or upon quarternious? Philosophy needs must be influenced by the place where it originates. Utilitarian morals and intuitive methods supersede abstract ethics and deductive principles when the thinker is thrown into the whirl of a great city. There is much talk now-a-days about making university studies practical and no doubt there is much wisdom in the attempt, but bookishness has its uses and if it is not to be fostered in the colleges, it will not be fostered anywhere, and will disappear forever. That would be an evil. Four...