Word: ago
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Northfield Student Conferences began more than 20 years ago at Mt. Hermon, and were moved the next year to East Northfield, where they have been held ever since. Many other similar conferences were subsequently organized in various sections of the country. Within a few weeks an undergraduate of the University will be chosen as chairman of the contingent to go from Cambridge to the conference...
This match will be the second of the season for the University team, which defeated the Dartmouth Rifle Club two weeks ago by a score of 469 to 449. The men have been practising on the 75-foot range since the Dartmouth match, and are expected to make a good showing against the Andover team...
...born in Boston 60 years ago, and was graduated from the University in 1879. For 20 years after leaving the University he was engaged in business, and headed numerous banking houses and manufacturing concerns...
...several days before that. Despite the earlier start which Coach Haines will have this year, however, considerable hard work must be put in to overcome the advantage in actual rowing which Yale will have had over the University, as the Elis had their first workout in shells two days ago. Contrary to expectations the tank has not yet been flooded, but will be ready on Monday. Today the machine work will continue in the Locker Building as usual, under the supervision of Coaches Haines and Brown...
...Here it is nearly Christmas time. Just four months ago today I took my first flight. And now I have nearly finished my training. I am flying the little chasse monoplane machines, and have finished acrobatics. Some sensations! The vrille or spinning nose dive, where the machine falls perpendicularly, spinning around, its longitudinal axis as it falls; the renversement where you give a jerk and a kick which flops you on your back and then complete the loop and come out traveling in the opposite direction, the quickest way to turn around; and lastly, the side slip, where you turn...