Word: towards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second half '99 played much better. A great deal of ground was gained on returning kicks and three touchdowns were made by long runs. Adams first crossed the line on a long run around the end. Soon after Macomber scored on a dash down the side-line, and then toward the last minutes of the game Macomber made the last touchdown by a run around the right...
...giving them a chance to speak for themselves. The course he has thus taken runs the risk of error, and it tends very strongly to cause such distrust and illfeeling as to destroy the influence which he might exert as the ally of the conservative movement in the colleges toward athletic reform...
...Committee has always had a hard row to hoe, and its work is none the less arduous because it is carried on in a very quiet, unpretentious way. In spite of the delicacy of its position, half-way between the students and a Faculty which is rather unfavorably inclined toward athletics, the committee has succeeded in maintaining a standard of purity in athletics of which the University may be justly proud. It has also done much to protect athletic interests, and, more perhaps than they imagine, has acted as the friend and ally of the undergraduates...
...Misses Bentley's Telescope" the hero is engaged in preserving "a pleasing amatory equilibrism" at home, while developing a genuine love affair abroad. The device by which the author reaches his climaxes is of course farcial, but his climaxes are none the less climaxes, and the story moves toward them with amusing and unhalting life and go. Verses, College Kodaks, a short sketch by G. H. Scull and couple of forceful editorials pointing out to Freshmen "that the broad opportunties for good fellowship with the solid good men of their class cannot be taken advatage of too early, and that...
...retiring board of preachers. Dean Hodges explained the relation of the morning chapel prayers to the church and deplored the sectarian prejudices against what are simply the gatherings of students as if for family prayer. The Rev. Dr. Harris of Andover, spoke on the present attitude of intellectual men toward religion as compared with that of a century...