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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...places of Brown, Balch, Frost, and Crowninshield will have to be filled with new men. The captain is desirous of having a large number of candidates to choose from, and would like all baseball men, even if they don't know how to play cricket, to come out and learn the game...
France and Germany are changing places; France is becoming more stable; Germany is being racked with Socialism. Germany has yet to learn by defeat the lesson that a hereditary government cannot stand firm in modern times...
...date for the Cylonian conspiracy much earlier than that accepted by Grote. In these first chapters there is a striking confirmation of this on historical evidence, and the date fixed, as Professor Wright argued that it should be, before the legislation of Draco. Contrary to the general idea we learn that Draco established the Athenian senate and that the Areopagus was in existence before his time...
Nothing as yet has been heard from the Boat Club in regard to the instructorship in rowing which the Corporation declared itself willing to create. We learn in fact that the Boat Club, in whose hands the matter was left, has taken no action. What their exact stand on the question is seems uncertain-so uncertain as to raise a doubt whether they understand exactly how the case is. Perhaps the executive officers of the Boat Club share, with many others in college, the opinion that an instructor in rowing must necessarily be the coach of the 'varsity crew...
...watched the foot ball practice last year will dispute that the victory at Spring-field was due at least as much to the early work of the squad as to any other of Captain Cumnock's innovations. Our foot ball management seems determined not to learn carelessness from success; for the squad will go out even earlier this year than last. The prospects are very bright, yet men must remember that our rivals felt their defeat keenly last year, and that nothing will beat them again but hard and early work. Therefore it is to be hoped that as large...