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...misunderstanding between Pennsylvania and Harvard with regard to the football game next fall has been satisfactorily settled. Pennsylvania courteously and gracefully withdrew her claims, and the game will be played under the Harvard four-year rule. This will debar Brooke and Williams from the U. of P. team next year...
...breach, and by his heroic firmness and skill, held the road to Chattanooga for six hours, against the whole strength of the victorious enemy. His force of 25,000 dwindled to 15,000. Ammunition gave out. But the gallant division repelled the last charge with cold steel, and withdrew at nightfall in perfect order. A grander resistance can not be found in the annals of history...
...then removed to New York, and became pastor of a congregation that in 1860 was organized as "The Third Unitarian Congregational Church," and represented the most radical branch of his denomination. He dissolved this society in 1879, and went to Europe, and on his return in 1881 formally withdrew from specific connection with any church, and devoted himself to literature in Boston. He had been a leader in the movement that has for its object the promotion of rationalist ideas in theology, and had contributed largely to various journals and reviews. In 1867 he became the first president...
...chorus had all sorts of accessories to carry out the illusion. The dramatic structure of the old comedy was rather curious. First was the prologue which gave a general idea of what the play was about. Then followed the episodes. About the middle came the parabasis, when the actors withdrew and the entire chorus came forward and amused the audience. Peculiar to the old comedy is the "agon," or contest, between the two chief actors. This was not clearly recognized until...
...intercollegiate fencing tournament, held in New York Saturday, was won by the Harvard team. Yale's representatives withdrew on account of an injury which one of the team had received a short time before, and Harvard and Columbia only were represented...