Word: answering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Moreover, the signalling by means of a steam whistle having proved misleading, the start will be made as follows: The referee from the "'67" will call out the preparatory warning, "are you ready," and ypon receiving no answer, will fire a gun or pistol as the final signal. As this is a sound not likely to be misunderstood, an even start may be expected. Thus, little by little the necessary arrangements attendant on the class races are becoming perfected. A year or two ago the shells were started for the first time from boats moored in the stream. This made...
...making long trips into the woods, to places where one is obliged to carry his own boat, the canvass canoe will be found to best answer the purpose, as it is ragged on a wooden frame which folds up into a small compass. They are usually square at the ends and are consequently slow sailors. Moreover, there is one serious objection to them, as the writer has learned from real experience, and it is this-a canvass canoe which weighs when new only twenty pounds will, after a month's knocking about, be found to greatly increase in weight. This...
...reply to our correspondent of this morning, we can only say, that while we do not set ourselves up as a criterion of etiquette we feel competent to answer the question which he asks. To quiet the fears of nervous guardians and anxious mammas, we wish to make public a fact already generally well known, that the base-ball games at Harvard are held in the afternoon at an hour leaving plenty of time after the match to reach home after dark. It has always been a custom for students to invite ladies to these games, and we never noticed...
...Harvard student ridicules the idea that unequal development is produced by training for specialties. In answer to the charge he refers to the prominent college athletes in the different branches, and adds they are almost without exception healthy, and well-developed men. Athletes are beginning to see that the best training for a specialty is the thorough development of the whole body, and not the abnormal development of particular muscles. When this idea has become generally accepted, as it seems probable under Dr. Sargent's teaching that it will, then this objection to specialties may be thrown aside...
...essayed to answer three questions : First, What is literature? Second, Why do college students of today know so little about it? Third, What way shall we take to know more about...