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...other hand, if Captain Mackenzie insisted on regarding the game as flnished, Captain Wiggin had a perfect right to decline to commence a new game on the spot, if, in his discretion, the circumstances were unfavorable to his nine. Harvard's nine is better adapted to play nine innings than twelve, and, besides, nearly all of Harvard's supporters would have had to leave in order to catch the special train before two more innings could have been played and this would have given Princeton a decided advantage in the matter of support. While Captain Wiggin was willing to play...
When the crews took their stations at six o'clock at the Union Boat Club, a slight wind was blowing, but not strong enough to disturb the water. The tide was coming in and everything was perfect for a good race...
...poetical races and epochs this turn for style is peculiarly observable; and perhaps it is only on condition of having this somewhat heightened and difficult manner, so different from the plain manner of prose, that poetry gets the privilege of being loosed, at its best moments, into that perfectly simple, limpid style, which is the supreme style of all, but the simplicity of which is still not the simplicity of prose. The simplicity of Menander's style is the simplicity of prose, and is the same kind of simplicity as that which Goethe's style, in the passage which...
There are some translations which have almost the merit of original works, like Sir Thomas Urquhart's of Rabelais, for instance, but it is almost impossible that any foreigner should acquire that perfect intimacy with the niceties of a language which is essential to the thorough comprehension of an author and especially a poet. Both Tieck and Schlegal have mined very deep in the genius of Shakespeare, of his power and art they were among the first to form an adequate conception, and yet in their translation, where Macbeth says: "Here on this bank and shoal of Time," they give...
...high jump formed a perfect ending to the meeting. All of the eleven entries contested, and the jumping was of the higest order. M. F. Sweeney of the Xavier Athletic Club, was scratch. The other outside entries were P. C. Stingel of Cambridge, and W. D. Rising of the Newton A. A. J. L. Bremer '96, Rising and E. H. Clark '96, dropped out at 5ft. 6in.; H. M. Wheelwright '94, at 5ft. 7 1-2in.; G. C. Chaney '94, at 5ft. 8 3-4in.; S. M. Merrill '94, at 5ft. 9 1-2in.; W. E. Putnam...