Word: tilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...History Society must be primarily to promote the study and the knowledge of science among its members; a debating society must first of all give men an opportunity for learning to debate; both, however, can do more than this. A Natural History Society does not attain its highest end till it interests others in science; a debating society cannot produce the best debaters till it brings in from the outside world men who are themselves models in debate, and it cannot be most useful till it gives the public a chance to hear the history of debate in its various...
There are now about twenty men in training for the freshman crew. The football men have not yet begun work and will not begin till after Christmas. The candidtes are divided into two squads which work every day on the rowing machines with Vail and Bond as coaches, then go through dumbbell work and take a run. The material is fair, but as yet there is no promise of a good crew. The men who are trying do not take enough interest in their work. They row on the machines day after day without making any progress or getting over...
...given a chance for a place in the boat. With so many places to fill it becomes a serious question how we are to turn out a good crew, and this matter of candidates simply reduces itself to a question of college spirit. We cannot have the best crew till the best men try for the boat and the best men cannot be chosen till all the possible candidates have been given a trial...
Except for changes which can not be made known till this afternoon, the teams will probably line up as follows...
Harvard has lost the game, but not till after a desperate struggle. Twenty-five thousand people saw the Yale eleven win the championship at Hampden Park this afternoon...