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...Annexation would be mutually beneficial to the United States and to Canada; [a] trade would be stimulated and means of communication improved; [b] causes of political difference would disappear; [c] complications with foreign nations would be avoided; Nation, vol. 28, p. 171; American, vol. 1, p. 149; Durell's Relation of tariff to Wages...
...maintained. The games with Yale and the race with Columbia form the one incentive to practice. It would be impossible to keep alive any interest in the teams by class contests and games with local high schools merely. And with the freshman teams other class teams will disappear. If "the main object of intercollegiate races and competitive contests is to increase the number of students who habitually take part in manly sports," the class teams, including freshman teams, should be strongly encouraged; and freshman intercollegiate contests could not possibly be excluded on the "strict application" of any principle which President...
...last of these plays the exaggerated and labored characteristics stand out with especial clearness. Mr. Moulton compared their action to the batter in a cricket match. They stand up and exhibit their peculiarities till they are bowled out and disappear to make room for the next. Form and plot in these plays are sacrificed to the satire. They are not plays but dramatic satires. The Elizabethan age was suited to this literary form as it abounded in characters who courted conspicuousness...
...early for much criticism of the men. There are not many heavy men among the candidates; the old crew however, was a pretty heavy set. The body work of the crews has been fair but when they took the oars yesterday, it all seemed to disappear...
...allowed wide freedom with the reserved volumes belonging to the University, it seems only reasonable to expect them to feel, from a sense of honor, some responsibility in the use of said books. Yet such is not the case. It is a frequent occurrence for a valuable book to disappear from the shelves just before important thesis are due in some course. The book sometimes reappears a few days after the theses have been handed in, often it does not. It is interesting to conjecture what will happen in the case of a certain book, now out of print, which...