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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...versification. "Love that Passeth all Understanding" by J. B. Holden '99, shows a strange difference of mood between the story proper and the title. In a second colonial sketch, "An Act of Treason," C. S. Harper '99, imitates in a pleasing manner a form of story that is not uncommon...
...Board of Overseers. To quote from the report:- "A large proportion of students not being sufficiently strong and active to play on the athletic teams, find no inducement to improve their physical condition. Thus a very large class take no regular exercise and it is by no means uncommon to find men, often students of great promise, who leave college as much weakened in body as they are strengthened in mind." The committee expressed itself as strongly impressed with the importance of encouraging men to devote a portion of their time to the cultivation of general health, and in commenting...
...contains some important suggestions in regard to physical training. "A large proportion of students not being sufficiently strong and active to play in the athletic teams find no inducement to improve their physical condition. Thus a very large class take no regular exercise and it is by no means uncommon to find men, often students of gret promise, who leave college as much weakened in body as they are strengthened in mind." The committee expresses itself as strongly impressed with the great importance of encouraging all students to devote a reasonable amount of time and energy to the development...
...greater sense of responsibility the teams would not be so liable to overtraining. It is only too common to see prominent football men simply lying by after the season is over and growing flabby. When the season of their activity comes round once more it is not uncommon to find many in no sort of shape to take up their work again and simply through lack of what seems to the careless such a nonentity, a little regular exercise...
...separate settlement, which on account of its make-up was in a condition bordering on anarchy. The industries-purely agricultural-were, however, more varied than in Virginia. The main staples were tobacco in the north and rice in the south. The absence of manufactures and commerce made town life uncommon, most of the people being small farmers and living on small and widely scattered plantations. The country swarmed with ruffians, and life and property were very insecure. The character of the population was much bettered in 1711 by immigrations of Germans, Hugenots and Scotch Highlanders...