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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...their nervous system must be in good condition. While the desire of pecuniary assistance is a motive which, in some cases, leads men to try for scholarships, it is no longer the leading motive. The difference between scholarships with and without stipends is growing less and less and will disappear in after life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISTINCTION CONFERRED | 12/21/1899 | See Source »

...certain sports seem to outweigh, in many minds," says Professor Hollis in this article, "the positive good that springs from them. This prejudice is, doubtless, based upon the abuses of ten or fifteen years back, when athletics had run mad. Things have changed, however, and the old influences have disappeared. Many practices once thought legitimate have been given up as leading to bad sport, and college boys have begun to acquire consciences both about the time taken from regular work, and about the method of winning games. The deception and brutality which once seemed an inevitable accompaniment of the games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Monthly. | 11/15/1899 | See Source »

...cannot be pessimistic, we who in our own time have seen so many good things accomplished,- have seen slavery disappear and polygamy and international literary piracy; we who have seen the beginning of the protection of our forests; our ballot laws so vastly improved and the spoils system stricken a tall blow. But we shall meet with disaster after disaster in America-and perhaps one disaster more than even our constitution can stand, if we do not exert ourselves constantly in the elevation of public affairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. GILDER'S LECTURE. | 3/9/1897 | See Source »

...difficulty is to get the Colleen Bawn out of the way. The idea is repulsive to him, but Donny Mann, the devoted hireling of Cregan, expresses his readiness to act if Cregan will but send his glove as a token secretly understood between them that the Colleen is to disappear. The glove is sent by a misunderstanding and Donny Mann acts. Eily is led by him to enter his boat under the pretense that her husband has sent for her. He rows her to a solitary cave, which chances to be the secret haunt of Myles. The latter shoots Donny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 11/8/1895 | See Source »

...difficulty is to get the Colleen Bawn out of the way. The idea is repulsive to him, but Donny Mann, the devoted hireling of Cregan, expresses his readiness to act if Cregan will but send his glove as a token secretly understood between them that the Colleen is to disappear. The glove is sent by a misunderstanding and Donny Mann acts. Eily is led by him to enter his boat under the pretense that her husband has sent for her. He rows her to a solitary cave, which chances to be the secret haunt of Myles. The latter shoots Donny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 11/7/1895 | See Source »

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