Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...petition for better quarters for the Cambridge post-office were put up at noon yesterday and before night several hundred names were subscribed. Many members of the Faculty have expressed their endorsement of the movement in strong terms. One spoke of the accommodations in the post office as the worst he had ever seen and characterized the place as a "a nasty hole." Another said that it was unfit for a dog to live in." Another said that though the University alone, represented nearly five thousand persons, including Radcliffe College and the families of instructors, there was not as good...
...hand. It should be the same with the literary man Every student of ability should fell it incumbent on him to spend his efforts in Harvard's service, it matters not in what direction. Selfishness in witholding power by which the College might profit is of all kinds the worst. We do not doubt that a little more strenuous effort would often rouse the literary power, weakened by disuse, and turn it to the benefit of the College periodicals. The new year would be an excellent time to inaugurate the change...
...have already anticipated my application of this thought - your duty in public service. The upturning of crime and degradation in our greatest city suggests a joint action, and in that our brethren have been in the van. There, however, the worst feature was not the crime of the criminal or the degradation of already degraded office holders, but the lethargy of the city, the silent abetting of masses of intelligent people of the crimes, the selfishness of business men, householders who would rather bribe than have their peace disturbed. We have yet to learn that every citizen has his public...
...game yesterday afternoon was, to say the least of it, the worst the nine has put up thus far this season and was very discouraging. Only once during the game did the nine play in anything like its usual form; this was during the third and fourth inning. At the end of the fourth inning. At the end of the fourth innings the score stood five to three in Harvard's favor. Then the whole nine became demoralized and went to pieces and Brown had no trouble in piling up the runs. In all, thirteen errors were made. Harvard...
...Obviously there is here a serious incongruity between the desirable and the necessary in a college education, and the fault lies with the students themselves. By their devotion to athletics they give to the school boy just the stimulus which he least needs, and which is accordingly the worst for him. His youthful vigor might be trusted to work itself off in as much athletics as would be good for him; while the college should furnish the much more needed impulse to scholarly attainment...