Word: various
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Freshman Debating Club at its meeting last evening endorsed the plan proposed by the Forum of setting apart Friday evening for the meetings of the various college organizations and requesting that no college lectures be held on that evening...
...excel artistically, and besides artistic merit, of the poetic feeling which should enter into the composition of such a photograph. He commended the practice of photography as cultivating the artistic sense, although it be not so disciplinary to hand and eye as the art of drawing. After pointing out various individual defects and merits, he complimented the contributors upon the general nature of the work exhibited...
Church unity, said Bishop Vincent, is only truly secured when the various sects and denominations through their dissentions and discussions promote the search for truth. The influence of the pulpit is still strong; it is the pulpit that takes the lead in the discussion of the social questions and in the amelioration of life...
...closing, General Walker showed that owing to the demonetization of silver production has not increased as it should have done. The reason of this, he thought, was the dislocation of foreign exchanges, due to the differing standards in the various countries...
...results of overtraining have been much exaggerated. The percentage of athletes injured in this way is small. Out of over 4000 men examined who were members of various Harvard teams not over one per cent were affected with the slightest cardiac trouble. It is in those events in which there are long strains and few intervals of rest that the heart is most strained, such as tugs-of war; but in football the heart has intervals of rest and the strain is not great...