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When the town fell, he withdrew to his deanship at Ireland, embraced the Irish cause, and hurled her rage and wrongs against England. It was at this time that his "Gulliver's Travels" appeared. - beautiful, vivacious, intense in realization and grotesque in combination. Yet, though his best-known work, it is not his most meritorious nor his worst representative...
...games held by the Worcester Athletic Club Saturday night, the most exciting event was the team race between the Worcester Polytechnic and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which was won by Worcester. The race was very close and both the finishing men fell exhausted at the end of the race, Gallagher of Worcester falling against the tape, and Batchelder of Boston falling just before reaching...
...herself opposed to the idea of the college in athletics and in favor of the university in athletics, which is what Harvard will doubtless stand for herself. Harvard's desire to eliminate professionalism from athletics was well defined three years ago when the well known proposition made then unfortunately fell through on account of disagreements on minor points. The desire is still as strong, but the method for reform has assumed a broader character. The athletic committee is at present considering the best means of accomplishing the reform and steps are being taken to learn the sentiment of the athletic...
...cared for the university was shown by the sacrifices he made to serve here as preacher during ten of the busiest years of his life. One of the few things that ever made him show impatience, was the consciousness, which came over him at times, how far the university fell below the very high ideal which he set for it and to which he always clung. In return, there certainly has been no one with in our memory towards whom the whole body of undergraduates have felt as they have toward him. Even among men whose usual attitude toward religion...
Both of these propositions fell through, the first because of a failure to decide upon places satisfactory to both universities, the second because of a disagreement about dates. Yale and Princeton each admitted the justice of putting the time which these rules should go into effect two years from the date of their adoption. By this precaution all chance of unfairness was done away with. The broad application, too, of the rule to all lines of athletics is also significant, in showing the sincerity with which Harvard three years ago attempted to carry out essentially the same plan which...