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...eighth inning there was throughout a certain amount of carelessness about the play which made it appear as if the men were not thoroughly interested in their work. It was enough for them that they were ahead, and so they did not play their best or make very strenuous efforts to increase their lead. A slightly stonger batting team than Hopkinsons would have won the game. One of the first things that the team will have to learn is that every game, no matter how weak the opposing team, demands their strongest play. To play by spurts will never accomplish...
...faculty of the University of Michigan is making strenuous efforts to prevent the use of printed notes in the Law Department. One student who furnished notes at six cents per lecture has been expelled, but as there are twenty or more stenographers in the class the printed notes continue to appear at the regular rates. The faculty, however, announces that they intend to suppress the practice if it takes all winter...
...clock Harvard will play the J. P. Lovell Arms Company nine and the simple announcement of this game is an assurance of an interesting contest. The Lovell men are determined to do their best to retrieve their defeat of the other day and Harvard will of course make strenuous exertions to prevent the rifle-making baseballists from having this satisfaction. Harvard's batting order will be as follows: Dean, 2b.; Hallowell, c. f.; Hovey, s. s.; Trafford, 1b.; Frothingham, r. f.; Alward, l. f.; Cook, 3b.; Upton, c.; Bates...
...Bishop Hare said that he came to speak of the Sioux tribe only, a small portion of the Indians of the United States, but by far the most important. These Sioux constitute the most important tribe of recent United States history. It was this tribe which has been most strenuous in opposition to the advances of civilization; it was to settle difficulties with the Sioux that the famous council of 1868-9 met; it was this tribe whose warriors were most belligerent...
...that the men who were the chief advocates of this theory were the most learned and distinguished men of their respective nations. The masses of men soon followed their leadership for the majority of men need but to have a new theory cleverly presented to them to become its strenuous supporters. The three great monotheistic religions are the Jewish, Christian and Mohammedan. It is true that at first the Jewish religion was polytheistic but little by little all the lesser gods lost their devotees and finally after the Jews came back fram their Babylonian captivity in the sixth century...