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...created free and equal." The most notable of these was John Wise, "The first great American democrat." "He had every quality that gives distinction among men. He was of towering height, of great muscular power, stately and graceful in shape and movement; in his advancing years, of an aspect most venerable." On one occasion he threw a famous wrestler in Massachusetts who had desired to test his strength. But he had an intellect proportioned to his strength of body; for in 1687 when the infamous Sir Edmund Andros sent for a province tax, the young minister "braved the tyrant...
Since college ended last June, a great change has taken place in the aspect of Holmes field. The new track has been laid out, the ground leveled, and a large building, the "Jefferson Physical Laboratory," has been nearly erected. The new Law School on the outskirts of the field, which has also been largely built during the summer, will be occupied, it is expected, some time about the first of October. It is built entirely of stone, and may now be considered perhaps the most beautiful building which the university possesses...
...case the small number of our entries would doubtless hinder us from capturing enough second prizes to win. Therefore it is with no expectation, and but little hope, that we shall send our team to the inter-collegiate games this year. Another year of like improvement may change the aspect of our chances...
There is a genial, social aspect about lawn tennis that has, no doubt, largely ministered to the growth of its popularity. It possesses no mysteries like the ancient and classic game whose name it has borrowed, and whose champions look down upon the intruder as rather a sorry sort of parvenu. A person who cannot be made to understand that the advance at a bound from "fifteen" to "thirty" is a perfectly natural numerical progression, that thirty is a matter of course leaps at once to forty, and that "deuce" is the parent of "vantage," must be singularly obtuse...
...many members of the faculty that the building of the fence would be undemocratic, in that it would prevent a large number of men from witnessing the games on account of inability to pay the price of admission. To the minds of some the matter appears in its mercenary aspect, and it is feared that the erection of a fence for the purpose of increasing the gate receipts will smack of professionalism. Still another class look at the question from an aesthetic point of view, and in the eyes of these the unsightly appearance of the fence is its chief...