Word: winter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...following events for the winter meetings of the H. A. A. are announced...
...view of the approaching winter meetings, I wish to protest against the continuance of a long standing abuse of college athletics. The so-called sparring matches held in years past at Cambridge have as a rule been mere exhibitions of unscientific, brutal "slugging," degrading to the participants and spectators and disgraceful to the association under whose auspices they have been held. Contents into which athletes enter "for blood" and not infrequently come out wearing the laurels of a "knock out," are unworthy of recognition as legitimate sports, and deserve the condemnation of friends of college athletics...
...Harvard is concerned, last night. The total is 107, a considerable falling off from last year when there were 190. Freshmen are by means so numerous as they were last year, while several old runners who are still in college, are not training at all this winter...
...more specific example of the working of the spirit of Christ is given in the great emergency that has come upon us this winter. Never has any country responded so nobly to the cry for help from its poor. The charity is not of the grudging and condescending kind, but comes from an overflowing heart longing to help those whom it regards as equals and brothers. When the letter carriers of Boston give unanimously a whole day's pay to the poor, does not this show the spirit of Christ? Should we ask before answering, "can they say their creeds...
...weeks ago Professor Royce received a request from the Monday Night Club of Princeton that he would lecture before the club at some time during the winter. In accordance with this request Professor Royce will leave for Princeton on the last of this month, and will deliver a lecture to the club on Thursday, February...