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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this tendency to stay out of the competition. Nothing is more discouraging to those on whom the success of the meeting depends, than this backwardness on the part of the men who are counted upon to make up the events. A meagre number of entries certainly do not add to the pleasure of the spectators and we sincerely hope the experiences of past years may not but be repeated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/2/1893 | See Source »

...field events the chances are excellent, especially in the weight contests, Hickok '95S., being almost a sure winner in the hammer throwing, having already a record which is close to the intercollegiate. Stillman '94S., Lyman '95 and A. Brown Jr. '96, are also good men who should add several points to Yale's score. Cartwright '93, has had considerable experience in pole vaulting and ought to win a place in this event, while Sheldon '96 who holds several Andover records, has a good chance in the high and broad jumps. It will be seen by the foregoing criticism that Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track and Field Athletics at Yale. | 3/2/1893 | See Source »

Harvard's proposal to add a three-mile run to the program of the intercollegiate events, was defeated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I. C. A. A. Meeting. | 2/27/1893 | See Source »

...services in Appleton Chapel last evening were conducted by Rev. W. B. King of Christ Church, who took for his text II Peter I, 5, "Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue." It is remarkable how single words often express in their development the history of whole phases of human history. The word "virtue" in the text is a fitting example. The Greek word used by St. Peter had a simple meaning compared with its translation, a meaning parallel to "virtus" from which we get our word. It meant all that is brave and manly, all that is distinctly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 2/27/1893 | See Source »

...Copeland has also decided to add to the above discussions, American poets, the "American Short Story" and possibly a few American novelists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Voluntary Course. | 2/24/1893 | See Source »

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