Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sure of a ready welcome on any athletic team, for generally the more candidates there are the better the final material is; and as regards the last point no man can tell what he can do till he tries and some of our best athletes have started under the worst circumstances and with no hope or thought of becoming good athletes. Therefore we urge every man in college to realize that he can be a factor in our athletics and to join the nine or the crew or the Mott Haven squads...
...Populist movement thus far has been only injurious to the public welfare - (a) Valuable statesmen have been driven out of public life: Boston Post, Mar 18, 1891 - (b) Legislation in the States controlled by Populists has been of the worst kind: Nation...
Pennsylvania has played Yale at football for 9 consecutive years and been beaten every time. The worst defeat was 75-0 in '86 the closest game...
...Hadley, told in a simple and effective manner the story of his life. Born of respectable parents he received an ordinary education and learned the trade of an iron moulder. His fondness for drink proved his ruin, and seven years ago he was a wretched outcast of the worst type. He struggled in vain against his terrible failing, till through the efforts of Mr. Hadley he was brought to pray to Jesus Christ. That alone saved him and Mr. Griffin says that is the only thing can save others...
...philosophy, Professor Sumichrast said he had chosen his subject because Renan had lately died and because Renan had more influence than any other one man on French thought of today. Renan was an optimist, while the majority of the young writers and thinkers of today are pessimists of the worst sort. Renan, says Professor Sumichrast, has not been the prime cause of atheism in France, which really has been steadily diminishing in the last twenty-five years...