Word: topics
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...principal topic of interest in the university at present is the baseball outlook. Yale's victory over Princeton last Saturday was due so largely to chance that success for the rest of the series does not seem to be assured. Moreover, Murphy will not play with the team for the remainder of the season, and Greenway will be unable to pitch in the coming game at Princeton. It seems highly probable therefore that the Princeton series will be decided by a game in New York...
...meeting will be over by half-past seven, it will not conflict with any other engagement. All members of the University are cordially invited, and it is hoped that a large number will avail themselves of this opportunity to hear a most interesting speaker upon a suggestive topic...
Harvard Religious Union, Topic: Salvation. Mr. D. H. Fletcher. Parlors of the First Parish Church...
Harvard Religious Union. Topic: Salvation. Mr. D. H. Fletcher. Parlors of the First Parish Church...
Several attempts at fables cover the first few pages of this issue. Only two deserve notice. "The Wise Man," by R. P. Utter, is good, but one wishes its tone were otherwise. The dialogue is well done and the topic decidedly modern. The best of the other attempts is "The Mongol and the Chinaman," by Albert Dwight Sheffield. After reading all these essays, however, one sees a reason for the quotation which heads the collection: "For the term fable is not very easy to define rigorously." Two efforts at versifying, the first "To a Guinevere" having no excuse for being...