Word: towards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...annual reunion and dinner of the Sons of Brown Wednesday evening, a committee was appointed to take steps toward raising $2,000,000 to extend the scope and usefulness of the University...
...athletic conference at which a number of eastern colleges will be represented soon to be held at Providence, is a welcome sign of the growth of a healthy movement toward the correction of athletic evils. The most ardent partisan of intercollegiate sport is forced to admit that under present conditions, abuses do exist, and that they are abuses very difficult to eradicate. The intensity of public interest, and the resulting fierceness of competition form an influence in favor of excess which is almost irresistible...
Dartmouth is considering a plan for the support of college athletics by which the bill of each student is to be increased $10 a year, which will go toward the support of the football, baseball and track teams. Every student will in this case receive a pass to all the athletic contests...
...social question is puzzling the minds of statesmen all over the world. I do not come here claiming to have found a solution for these problems, but to suggest a light that shall show the way out. Every where the growth of Christianity has been a steady progress toward freedom. The essential beauty of civilization is charity. Freedom is the essential thing of civilization. Now freedom has brought no more substantial result than the substitution of free labor for slave. Nevertheless the industrial system based upon freedom contains within itself elements which threaten its existence. The adjustment of the demands...
...polo, primarily because Yale, Brown and most other local teams now play the Canadian game. The change has the advantage of allowing seven instead of five to play on the team, and of demanding a greater amount of team work. Four men, called forwards, rush the ball toward the opposite goal in accordance with the rule to keep on side and to make no forward passes. They can be in line or move one behind the other as the Brown team did in the game which they won on Wednesday. The coverpoint and point correspond to halfbacks and there...