Word: reals
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...best of its ability, but its time is so short that just as it has learned something by experience and is in a position to accomplish something, graduation puts an abrupt end to its opportunity. Next fall another equally green set takes charge. Thus there can never be any real continuity of purpose. With such a complete change of personality every year, gradual, careful construction of a system in athletics or in any thing else is not to be expected...
...observed how I have from time to time enlarged and improved my place, both for my own convenience and the comfort of my patrons, until today I have a place fitted up for haircutting second to none in this city. Employing six men, who, according to my judgement, for real scientific haircutting, can not be surpassed. Let me in conclusion invite your patronage for the coming year. We will cut and trim your hair so that it will always look well. Haircutting is our business; we have lots of time, patience and judgment, that can only be acquired by years...
...editorial in the December issue of the Monthly expresses a complaint felt only too strongly by the readers of our college periodicals. As the writer says, why is it that men insist on choosing subjects with which they have no real sympathy? The result is occasionally creditable it is true, but lacks individuality and a lacquered effect is only too common. At intervals we find a man writing of truly personal experience and with sympathy; his theme may be well worn, but the well telling of it makes an old story new, and after all the best things in literature...
...sing together very well, with the exception of the second tenors who are perhaps thus far the weakest point. The basses, especially the second basses, are doing very good work and form the real strength of the club. There are over a dozen first basses and nine good second basses, whereas there are only about fourteen tenors...
...present at an informal discussion of a practical question of the day, carried on by such men as Judge Holmes and the members of the Economics Department. The meeting of the Natural History Society, with addresses by Mr. Hornaday and Professor Shaler, was no less calculated to arouse a real interest in the minds of its younger members. Each meeting presented its particular branch of study in its most particular light, and as a live issue...