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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Thanksgiving day, so that both the number was exceptionally large and also no students were kept from their college work. If this number is cited, and no other figures are given, with an intention of giving any idea of what usually occurs, even approximately, at other contests out of town, it is wholly misleading. There is usually one decisive ball match, which occurs between Class day and Commencement, at a time when there are no collegiate exercises, which attracts about 50 students from Cambridge, and the university boat race, which is also largely attended, occurs in the summer vacation...
...they would be shirked supposing there were no athletics at all. If the committee will take a deeper glance into the past twenty-five years and compare the two athletic systems they will probably see that, after all, the present system is the best. We hear no longer of "town and gown" fights, of practical jokes played upon professors and Cambridge citizens, and of other childish exhibitions of animal spirits. The men who train for athletic teams are, as a rule, the best students; they acquire habits of steadiness and sobriety which we cannot always look for in the average...
...There has been a great advance in mutual good feeling between 'town and gown' even within a score of years. A Cambridge policeman does not now represent 'all that is antagonistic to human interests,' even in the eyes of the freshest undergraduate. Harvard men and Cambridge society have very pleasant relations, and the annual graduation exercises of the city high school in Sanders theatre represent much more fairly the existing good feeling than does the petty criticism of Harvard as a foreign and non-taxpaying corporation...
...scene of the first act is laid in front of the Shorn Lamb tavern in the seaport town of Crowbay. A group of villagers, constituting the opening chorus, are gathered before the tavern. As the curtain rises they begin to tell of the approaching marriage of Constance to a rich but aged baronet, who has been selected by Boggs, the girl's father, as a suitable husband for his child, though much against her will. Alfred Dawdle, young, handsome and charming, but poor, makes his appearance, accompanied by his facetious but faithful servant, Rattles. Dawdle offers to elope with Constance...
Amos was one of the first of the prophets. He lived about 750 B. C. in the reign of Uzziah in Judah and of Jeroboam in Israel, in a little town near Bethlehem called Tekoa. It was just before the first Assyrian invasion-a time of great prosperity in Israel. He foresaw that the luxurious habits of the Jews would render them an easy prey to the enemy. The book of Amos consists of four parts: the introduction describing the downfall of many ancient cities because of this corruption, then four prophecies of disaster to Israel, then a series...