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Colonel Samuel E. Winslow '85 has accepted the position of head coach to the 'varsity baseball nine. Colonel Winslow is a man who has done a great deal for Harvard in baseball matters, and is eminently fitted for the position which he has accepted. In 1885 he was captain of the 'varsity nine, which did not lose a game during the whole season. Never before nor since has Harvard had such a collection of strong hitters. The batting of the team was phenomenal, and it was this chiefly which was responsible for such an enviable record...
...effect of Reynolds's journey to Italy is very marked on his early portraits, particularly in the blending of colors, which he derived from the painters of Venice. In 1756 his note-book contains appointments for one hundred and fifty-four sitters. Of these portraits he did the head, hands and the final touches...
...Control of irrigation by others than the United States unwise. - (a) By states. - (1) River systems extend over several states. - (2) The one nearest the head could steal all the water: Powell, 221. - (b) By individual farmers. - It would be on too small a scale to be effective except in a few places: Powell, 237. - (c) By corporations. - (1) It leaves a great class of farmers at the mercy of the water companies. - (2) It would lead to the creation of large estates and the crushing out of small holders. - (3) It would lead to popular hatred...
...show the social principles of the Salvation Army. First he told of his own struggles, when he had taken his stand alone against the tide of poverty, disease and crime in the eastern part of London. The enterprise at first seemed to him desperate, the hope of making any head against such a sea of misery and vice was forlorn. With dauntless courage he resolved to make the salvation of his suffering fellow creatures his life work, and here in this dark district of London, where the light of God had never penetrated, be found his field of labor...
...show how the movement had progressed. Men and women everywhere banded together in the form of a military army, in order to give the undertaking greater strength. Today, he said, the Salvation Army had a literature, a newspaper literature at any rate, that placed it at the head of all Protestant denominations...