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...great hopes of winning the cup this year. The events which they expect to take and the men they are depending upon are the tug-of-war team; H. Mapes, '92, in one if not both hurdles; Banks, '89, in the quarter-mile; V. Mapes, '91, in the broad jump; Vosburgh, '90, and Hornbostel, '90, in the mile run; Strong, '89, in the half-mile run, and McGuire, '89, in the bicycle race...
...heavy weight wrestling (over 160 1bs.), middle-weight wrestling (160 1bs.), light-weight wrestling (140 1bs.), feather-weight wrestling (125 1bs). At the second meeting, March 23, the events are as follows: Feather-weight sparring (125 1bs.), bantam-weight sparring (115 1bs.), flying rings, horizontal bar, broad-sword, fencing, and final tug-of-war. At the third meeting, March 30-Polevault, running high jump, standing high jump, running high kick, rope-climbing, parallel bars, two-handed fence-vault, and tug-of-war limit (600 1bs.), will be contested...
...lecturer said that when Greek civilization passed away Homer lost much of that broad influence which he had exercised over the life and intellect of the civilized world. He lost his character as a philosopher and came to be regarded merely for his position in literature. Later he was not even accorded the supremacy in literature. In the Augustan age and the later centuries he was not appreciated, and Virgil was held in higher estimation. With the revival of letters, at the period of the Renaissance, the Greek language began to regain much of its lost power and Homer...
...desirable of attainment. All have marked the change form the narrow atmosphere and petty restrictions of a school in which the result is to extract from the pupil a fixed amount of work and exact from him a strict obedience to a body of minute regulations, to the broad life of a true university, in which great privileges are offered to those who will avail themselves of them, while in return each student is required to conform himself to such regulations only as are necessary for the maintenance of order and of honor and to satisfy his instructors that...
...central buildings of the university, now partly under construction after designs by the Boston architects, Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, the successors of Richardson, are to stand in the center of the broad plain occupying the greater part of the tract. The purpose of the plan, so far as represented, is: first, to provide for convenient and economical use, by large numbers, of the means of research and instruction to be offered in the central buildings; second, to provide in the arrangements devised for this purpose an outward character, suitable to the climate of the locality that will serve to foster...