Word: nine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exceeded thirty thousand hours or about one sixth that of the laboring man with only as much brain as may guide his movements. Inasmuch, therefore, as intellectual labor his been found more wearying than that required of the ordinary man, the conclusion has been drawn that not more than nine months of the year should be devoted to school work, and it seems to be the tendency everywhere to increase rather than diminish the periods devoted to refreshment. These respites from intellectual labor are not unaccompanied by evil tendencies, and, in fact, the mind needs some time in which...
...report is not true will you please send me a denial; if true will you kindly give me full particulars of the proposition made you, and tell me by whom it was made, whether a member of the Harvard nine, or some one acting on their authority...
...There was considerable indignation and excitement here today when the copy of the letter addressed to the Philadelphia Press by a young athlete, who was approached by Harvard men and offered remuneration for his services if he would enter Harvard and play on the Harvard base ball nine and foot ball eleven, was received, and this charge makes Harvard's position ticklish in the extreme...
...letter written, as the delegate to the Foot Ball convention said, what has become of it? To whom and by whom was it written? Mr. Ammerman does not mention a letter. The first article, (see above) said the offer was made by an influential member of the Harvard nine. The second article says it was a Harvard man, and Mr. Ammerman is not able to give his official connection with the Harvard association...
...statement appeared recently in New York and Philadelphia papers in which it was alleged that certain inducements had been extended to me by a prominent Harvard base ball official to enter the Harvard Law School and play on the Harvard base ball nine and foot ball eleven. Though the name of Linn of the Harvard nine was not mentioned, he has seen fit to deny that overtures were made by him. Under the existing circumstances, therefore, it seems desirable to state the existing basis of the statement in the papers. Inducements of the character mentioned- a scholarship and pecuniary compensation...