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...clock this afternoon, after a rather hard journey. The men showed no ill effects of the trip, and spirited practice was held on Percy Field, shortly after arriving. The fielding was especially good, notwithstanding the fact that the ground was rather slippery, owing to a snow which fell this morning. The batting of the team against Brennan, Bush and Slater, was hard and accurate. All the men seemed in good condition after the practice, and ready to play a hard game tomorrow...
...imaginary ancestor, invented to receive the worship of his admirers. It is at any rate assured that the incomparable poet did not write the whole Iliad, but that it was a work of successive ages, and probably, at the end of a long period of gradual development, fell into the hands of some great poet. Although criticism may reveal a hundred joints in the construction of the Iliad, it rarely can disclose faults in the style; for there is nothing more striking about the poem than the uniformity of splendor in which it was written. In some manner a great...
Generation after generation of poets steeped itself in this Epic spirit and each gave itself up to the tradition of its predecessors. No one dreamed of vying with Homer, but only of serving and exalting him. After all these various traditions had been handed down, it probably fell to the lot of some great poet to combine them into one great work. In reading this work we must overlook the inconsistencies, and regard it in a spirit of sympathetic imagination, for behind it is an intensity of imagination, not merely of one great poet, but the accumulated emotion of generations
...infielding practice this week has been taken up entirely with pivot plays and sliding. In the pivot plays the work has been very encouraging and the throwing has improved. As was expected the batting of all the men fell off considerably. This slump, however, was due entirely to the use of the curves...
...monarchy as a result of the increased population, the price of manufacture fell, as did the salaries, but the manufactured articles rose in value; this was a disastrous state for the workingmen. But during the last 60 years the opposite conditions have been in evidence: salaries have been increased and commodities have decreased in value. Certain commonplace luxuries have been put within the reach of the workingman, but in fact, it is the commonplace which makes the eulogy and glory of the present...