Word: behind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...received a number of complaints, of which the communication published February 9 is an example, in regard to the site selected last summer for the Phillips Brooks Memorial House. They have been expressive of a feeling which is now in measure general, that any building, however small, placed behind Stoughton will spoil what is now a very complete portion of the Yard...
...Observatory for the year ending September 30, 1897, shows that the strongest feature of the department in comparison with other observatories is the large endowment for current expenses, which makes it possible to undertake and carry to completion extensive investigations. As regards permanent plant, however, the Observatory falls far behind not only observatories of the first rank, but even those of the second class. The photographic plates are housed in a modern brick building, but the other buildings are all old wooden structures, liable to destruction by fire, together with the instruments, manuscripts and books. The things chiefly needed...
...score of 3 to 2. The Tech. team led most of the game, but became winded toward the end, and showed lack of practice. The score at the close of the first half stood two to two, the winning point being made by a luck stroke from behind the goal. Hopkins and Walworth, of last year's Yale team played the best game for Tech. Matteson and Goodridge did the best for Harvard, and Russell played his usual steady game at goal...
Yesterday afternoon the final trials to pick the fourth man and the substitutes for the relay race against Yale, and the team to race Bowdoin, were held on the board track behind the Jefferson Laboratory...
...possible, succeeding coaches have endeavored to follow advice received, and from time to time have altered their methods to imitate those of more successful colleges. Yet Harvard has thus made a fatal mistake in resting content with a policy which leaves her at least one year behind her rivals. Even if her rivals had remained stationary, we could not have hoped to be successful through an imitative policy, as many favorable conditions which exist in other colleges can be reproduced in only a very limited degree here. The superior attractions of Boston over those of a country town...