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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that one can acquire more good and get more practice when one is beaten than when one is victorious. It is always better to play with a more powerful rival than it is to play such teams as our nine is compelled to meet. To know that you can conquer, to feel no respect for your opponent, is to give rise to feelings of laxity and carelessness which are positively injurious to a good team. In such contests the weak points of the team have no chance of being found out, and are thus left uncorrected till the most important...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/18/1887 | See Source »

BOSTON MUSEUM. - Annie Clarke in "She Stoops to Conquer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amusements. | 4/15/1887 | See Source »

BOSTON MUSEUM. - Annie Clarke in "She Stoops to Conquer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amusements. | 4/14/1887 | See Source »

Oliver Goldsmith's works are great favorites with native readers in India. Thus the loves of Edwin and Angelina have been rendered into Urdu as Ekantbase yogi, or "The Lonely Hermit," while "She Stoops to Conquer" is translated into the same dialect as "The Story of Beauty Unveiled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/10/1887 | See Source »

...prescribed course, under which he studied. "Like him (Prof. Palmer) I was especially found of Greek and Philosophy; but I studied Calculus with more carefulness on that very account. I learned to do patiently the things set me to do; to work hard and wait for the reward; to conquer every task - whatever it might be - before leaving it. And I would not give this bit of learning for all to be got from the most attractive elective course of both Harvard and Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eduction, New and Old. | 1/6/1886 | See Source »

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