Word: victors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BOSTON THEATRE. - Boston Ideals in "Victor...
BOSTON THEATRE. - Boston Ideals in "Victor...
...grind. The lamp in which Epictetus burned his midnight oil is even now on exhibition in the British Museum along side of the Elgin Marbles. It is as large as a barrel. But to be a grind is it necessary to be a genius? I will not answer this. Victor Hugo says somewhere that it is a tres grande thing to be a bold, bad man. Now a grind is never a bold, bad man. He is just the opposite. He can give you the length in parasangs of Xenephon's march to the sea; he can sketch...
...Princeton; Yale held out to the last with an apparently inexcusable obstinacy. While Princeton sought to have the game contested under the fairest circumstances possible, Yale at least seemed to be striving to place her opponent at every possible disadvantage. In the disputes, Yale came out the proud victor, and should have credit for her perseverance and success; but in the game itself, Princeton is the victor, and her victory is all the more glorious because it was won against real odds. Who can deny that the first are often last, and the last first...
...Victor C. Alderson, '85, has received the appointment of superintendent of schools in an Indiana town...