Word: whose
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college championship is to be played for by four colleges, - Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and the University of New York. Our Team now hold the championship, and are practising hard to keep it. Surely they deserve as much recognition from the College for their efforts as a dozen men whose only desire is to while away the afternoon playing "battledore and shuttlecock" for their own private edification...
...Composition. And we fail to see why these could not be connected with the parallel courses in translation with a twofold advantage in both decreasing the amount of work and increasing the results. After all these have been considered, there still remain, however, a number of one-hour courses whose relative importance may be very fairly represented by the time assigned to them. Now it appears to us that the results from these courses would be much better if they could be made three-hour courses continued through half the year, some of them beginning at the opening...
...DEARLY BELOVED, - We have met together upon this mournful occasion to perform the sad offices over one whose long and honored life was put to an end in a sudden and violent manner. Last year, at this very time, in this very place, our poor friend's round, jovial appearance (slightly swollen, perhaps), and the elasticity of his movements, gave promise of many years more to be added to a long life which even then eclipsed the oldest graduate's. When he rose exulting in the air, propelled by the toe of the valiant Ropes, looking like the war angel...
...much for its sensualities; but he has in any case, along with a good deal of iconoclasm, a profound respect for effectiveness, a deep admiration for the man who amounts to something. This does not apply of course to all Westerners, but to that particular and perhaps representative class whose characteristic is independence carried to an extreme. This man will not worship at the shrine of birth, breeding, or refinement, but he will render hearty homage to an energetic worker, an able leader, a manly man. Before the end of his course he will probably appreciate the value of literary...
...bringer of tidings from Corinth, whose courage o'ercame his misfortune...