Word: killing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...properly qualified to represent Harvard, and should therefore no longer be allowed to enter intercollegiate competitions. This is the unsportsmanlike spirit with which basketball, after a slow decline, was last year buried by action of the Athletic Committee. It is the spirit which, if persisted in, will kill any sport, no matter how flourishing it may once have been...
...Death and the Dicers," by F. Schenck '09 is an adaptation of Chaucer's "Pardoner's Tale." There roisterers go forth to kill Death, but become embroiled in an altercation concerning the division of a pot a gold which they have found. In the dispute all are killed. The play ends with the specter of Death standing over the three, symbolic of the fate of those who seek gold with evil intent...
...concluding, Dr. Eastman gave a fine tribute to Sitting Bull, the greatest of the tribe. "Nobody ever knew of his great deeds. He never killed anybody but white soldiers, and was never known to kill a woman or child under any conditions. I remember when I was a doctor at Pine Ridge, the soldiers disarming the whole reservation and shooting down the defenceless Indians and afterwards chasing and killing the women. Human nature is the same the world over. We have been barbaric, we have been cruel, but you take a poor negro, cover him with oil and burn...
...became unpopular. Nero was now living a selfish and extravagant life in the midst of riches and pleasures, and is said to have preferred the theatre to the Senate. Agrippina chafed at this and a struggle arose between mother and son. The idea was then suggested to Nero to kill Agrippina, but he hesitated for a long time until he was sure of its being accomplished in secrecy. In the spring of 59, murderers sank the ship on which Nero had persuaded Agrippina to go. But Agrippina escaped by swimming and hastened back to Rome. Nero was afraid...
...Without doubt winter sports have a right to live, and none more so than hockey. But to abolish intercollegiate contests altogether will certainly kill this game. Intracollegiate athletics cannot exist without a varsity team which the contestants hope sometime to make...