Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...management of each organization to make its work successful. Of this we feel assured. But there are requisites of success other than the conscientious work of captains and managers, necessary as these are. Men must be found who are willing to train earnestly and long, else we cannot even hope for victory. All this is of course very trite and uninteresting, but it is nevertheless the foundation truth of athletic success, and needs to be practiced as well as understood. We do not propose to launch forth into extended exhortations-a style too common in college and school publications...
DEBATE OF DECEMBER 19, 1889.Question: "Resolved, That the woolen industries of New England cannot permanently flourish unless the duties on wool are reduced...
...duty on raw wool handicaps our woolen mills. (1) With it manufacturers cannot have their choice of wools.- Speech of Mr. Morse. H. of Rep., July 12. 1888; speech of Mr. Springer, H. of Rep., July 19, 1888. (2) The actual expense of producing woolens is, in general, excluding cost of raw wool cheaper in the United States than in Europe-Congressional Record XIX 6198-9. (3) Including the cost of raw wool however, the expense of producing woolens is cheaper in Europe than in the United States.- Ibid...
Were it not that our correspondent Nauseatus seems to have been suffering from his own malady at the time of his writing we should be inclined to agree with him in the opinion he has expressed. We cannot, however, join him in the uncharitable attitude which he has assumed toward good old Mother Advocate. If she be in error she need not be denounced as imbecile. Yet with all due deference to her we believe she is mistaken. Whatever may have been her intention, she has not fairly represented Harvard's attitude toward her own withdrawal from the foot ball...
...that it leads to personal contact of players not having the ball and hence to slugging; and that it has not been made necessary by the natural growth of the game, but is a radical departure from the true theory of the game. In the face of this it cannot be denied that the game has this year been comparatively free form slugging, and it may be doubted whether with a competent umpire this disagreeable feature would be any more characteristic of the game as played this year than as played in previous years. It is also true that interference...