Word: behind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...toed the mark, Scoville having the pole. Hardly had the pistol sounded when Brewer like a flash bounded ahead and at the end of the first lap had distanced his man by over 15 feet. In the second lap amid wild cheering Brewer kept leaving Scoville further and further behind until at the end of his last lap Harvard was over 20 yards in the lead. N. H. Bingham '93 and G. S. French, Yale, were the next pair. Bingham ran in magnificent form and easily got away from French, finishing out by about 45 yards. W. F. Garcelon...
...actual practice in the game, Stagg has prescribed a set of exercises intended to make the body limber. These will be taken every day. Stagg will play on the team but will not try to gain new honors in the box; he will probably take the place behind the bat, for no one has been found yet who has the making of a catcher. Nearly 150 requests for games at Chicago have been made. The guarantee asked is usually enough to cover the expenses of the nine for a week at the Fair. It is expected that a game will...
...Laboratory in Botany II will be open on Wednesday and Thursday for the benefit of those who are behind in their work...
...customs of German universities, as they appeal to American interest. There is no comparison possible between German universities and American colleges. The German boy gains his training in nine years solid work in the gymnasium, as it is called. When he enters a university he leaves general education behind and devotes himself to one particular object...
...professors can never fall behind the times, owing to a rather unique custom which has become established in Germany. Any man, after a proper course of study, is entitled to come to a university and offer lectures in opposition to the regular professors, so that, if a young man pursues his investigations farther than the professor, he soon supplants him in the favor of the students...