Word: approaching
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Lastly, and perhaps most important of all, is the unique fact that with the approach of examinations and eagerness for academic pursuits pervades the undergraduate atmosphere. The reviews offered are attended by practically the whole course, as Philosophy A recently demonstrated. Such eagerness should be satisfied; left the Faculty recognize a possible opportunity to increase the efficiency of its teaching...
...backfield Yale has no one who can approach Pendleton and Sawyer of Princeton in open field running, or Wendell of Harvard in line plunging, but they have a wonderful quarterback in Captain Howe. When he is out of the game, the team is perceptibly slower than when he is running...
Under the new arrangement there will be constructed from the Metropolitan Park speedway two motor entrances to Soldiers Field, one near the University boathouse and the other near the University boathouse and the other near the baseball grounds. With this arrangement motor parties can approach the field by way of the parkway on the Boston side, easily reached through Commonwealth and Brighton avenues, and will not inconvenience the pedestrians on Boylston and North Harvard streets. It will also be much easier in getting away by means of the parkway. In conjunction with the new subway and the proposed Stadium bridge...
...days of large crowds. It has been considered so dangerous that at times barges have been placed beneath the draw. One great obstacle that has prevented the construction of the new bridge has been in the past the opposition of the United States Government to obstructing the river approach to its property at the Watertown Arsenal. This objection was weakened materially by the construction of the West Boston drawless bridge and the Charles River dam and since then progress has been more rapid. One by one the obstacles have been surmounted, and now there is almost a certainty that...
...thirty years. She was born in Scotland in 1857 and taught at Dundee for several years. Since coming to this country she had been very active in astronomical work and was well known as the discoverer of several new stars. She was also the first to ascertain the approach of Halley's comet. Besides this work, Mrs. Fleming played a very important part at the Observatory, particularly in preparing material for the printing of the many annals which have been published...