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...with skill, while it has been the aim of Harvard to combine the three. In doing this her style of play was continually changing, while the Canadians never modified their game; so to defeat one was to defeat them all. Foot-ball men personally will regret giving up the famous trip to Canada and the hearty reception always granted by our friends there, but the change seems necessary...
...seventh edition of Liddell & Scott's famous Greek Lexicon has just been published. Prof. Goodwin, of Harvard, is mentioned as one of the chief contributors and revisers...
...pleasing address obtain their due. In college he took a high stand in his class, and found much time beside to devote to athletics, having been proficient not only in several different sports, but also having filled in an admirable manner the position of coxswain in the famous '77-'79 'varsity crews. During the past year, while pursuing his law studies, young Allen has been secretary of legation at Washington. [Boston Herald...
...shoulders into play. The legs should be sent from the hips in as straight a line as possible, and when they come down their hold of the ground should be firm, so as to use the muscles of the thighs to the best advantage. Those who have become famous on the cinder path, or those who resort to running for exercise, are much more evenly and gracefully developed than those who practice gymnastics, rowing or walking event, for these act only on certain portions of the body, whereas the former calls on all parts alike. Runners are also much more...
...said to inherit a very large share of his father's genius. Having distinguished himself at Harvard as one of the finest Greek scholars ever graduated from that university, he went to England and continued his studies in Cambridge. While there he became a member of the famous university debating-club, the Cambridge Union, and in that body, during that darkest period of our Civil War, when all England looked with sympathy upon the rebellion, he drew great attention to himself, both in great Britain and America, by his cogent and eloquent arguments in behalf of the Northern States...