Word: whether
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Club of New York has been engaged for the past month in fitting up its new house, at 11 West Twenty-second street, and will open it with a reception and supper next Thursday evening. All Harvard men in the city, whether members of the club or not, will be warmly welcomed. The rooms have been tastfully furnished and provided with many of the accessories of club life. Arrangements have been made for a first-class restaurant service, and the members anticipate the opening of a pleasant and prosperous career on the new footing upon which they have ventured...
...washing of several students is done in one lot, and the clothes are dried in the open air, thus subjecting them to every chance of infection, whether by direct contact with the soiled linen of some diseased individual or by the subtle chances of contamination from germs carried by the wind, as dust is carried, or brought by flies - notorious sowers of sickness. It would not be very difficult to start a college laundry, a steam laundry, where soiled linen could easily, if necessary, be disinfected, and where at least the sources whence clothes come would be known...
...blame for this sort of carelessness, whether it be "apparent" or not, can not be laid at the door of any individual. The miserable system, or lack of system, under which the financial arrangements of our athletic organizations are conducted, is the real cause of the whole trouble...
...would be difficult to decide whether base-ball or cricket is the more scientific so far as the relations of the batsman and the bowler or pitcher are concerned. I note that so far as the actual contest between ball and ball is concerned, the two games seem fairly equal. Though in base-ball pitching, a more difficult scientific problem is involved, it cannot be said that the play to meet the curving ball is more difficult than the play to meet the, varying pitch and break of well-bowled balls at cricket. In base-ball curves there...
...especially deplored that the manly and gentlemanly custom of cheering the opposing nine, whether victors or defeated, has fallen into desuetude. We are glad to have this opportunity of urgently calling for its revival. We trust that we shall have a chance to initiate this revived custom in our treatment of the defeated Princeton and Yale nines in the coming games...