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...Princeton, a gentleman with the euphonious name of Funkhouser, was for some time with the St. Louis team. These are only a few instances in which college athletes have turned their skill to profit; probably if a complete record had been kept twenty-five or thirty cases of this sort could be cited. That is a remarkably large number, when we consider that professional base-ball playing has practically been in existence only about fifteen years and that there are only ten or fifteen colleges that have good nines, and when we remember that all the instincts and surroundings...
...expenses of an education. We do not know that the commission of any professional or dishonorable acts has been imputed to Mr. Ward, nor that otherwise his standing as a gentleman has bebn impugned. Doubtless many of the other cases named are much of the same sort. The case of Mr. Bancroft, coach of the Harvard crews, is decidedly inapt for the Times' argument. Why Mr. Bancroft engaged in instructing Harvard students in one branch of athletics, should be pursuing any less respectable calling than Dr. Sargent engaged in instructing the same students in another branch it is difficult...
...letters addressed him upon the subject he had replied that he was a candidate for no political promotion. He knew of no nobler or more attractive work than that of advancing the university's interests. He pledged himself to abandon it for no promotion of any sort, political or otherwise...
...vehicles in the possession of the college and employed in various services about the buildings and grounds. Occasionally in the pleasant season one catches sight of a melancholy Rozinante painfully dragging a curious cart of delicate years about the grounds, engaged in carrying lumber or removing rubbish of some sort. But it is with the first snow-fall that this steed prances forth, shedding about him the last feeble rays of his departing glory. Bravely assuming his heavy task, he urges on his faltering steps in an almost vain endeavor to drag a cumbersome snowplow through the mighty drifts. Spavined...
...visited Greece, and upon his return in 1850 immediately began collecting material for the Greek dictionary. He put forth what was a sort of precursor to that work, 'A Glossary of Later and Byzantine Greek' in 1860. Alibone says of his contribution in this kind of learning, that "it was a peculiar boon to scholars and must occupy a place with the glossaries of Ducange and Charpentier." In 1860 he received the appointment to the professorship of Ancient, Byzantine, and Modern Greek which he held until his death. He again visited Greece...