Word: fifth
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...pecuniary inducements to enter college to play football. "Evidence" is presented in support of this assertion. This "evidence" consists of two letters, two extracts from letters, one of which was not addressed to the officers of the Princeton Association but appeared in the public press, a reference to a fifth letter which is not produced, and finally reference to the trip to England made last summer by a baseball team consisting of seven collegians under the charge of J. W. Spalding of New York...
Assistant Professor Bartlett delivered the fifth of the series of lectures by the German instructors, yesterday afternoon. His subject was "Goethe and Schiller...
...Graduate Advisory committee of the Intercollegiate Foot Ball Association held a meeting at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Saturday night to consider the advisability of arranging a rule to prevent the disputes which occurred this year, relative to graduate and professional players in intercollegiate athletics. No business was transacted as the delegates from Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania were absent. Those present were Tracy Harris of Princeton, W. C. Camp of Yale, and F. D. Beattys of Wesleyan...
...college is only about half as high as that of the general community of the same age surrounding it. It is also impossible to collect statistics showing of what diseases college men die, but it is probable that there is no disease in anyway peculiar to them. One fifth of the community die of contagious diseases, but from these college men suffer very little. From small pox no intelligent community need suffer. A vaccination in early life, however, does not retain its virtue always, and if there are men in college who have not been vaccinated since thirteen or four...
...Monthly continues Mr. Carpenter's translation of Ibsen's "The Lady of the Sea." The third, fourth and fifth acts occupy almost the entire space of the magazine, and leave room for only a communication and a poem, besides the editorial department and The Month. It may well be doubted whether the editors are justified imdevoting so many pages to a work not original nor written by an undergraduate, even though it is of so great intrinsic merit as Mr. Carpenter's translation. This article is a great honor to its contributor and to Harvard, but it should not have...