Word: behinds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...educate the ear as well as the eye by assiduous practice, so that the languages can be spoken as well as read, and it is almost useless for us to add that this method is the only thoroughly satisfactory one. English, for the time being, is left behind entirely, and all conversation is carried on maforeign tongue. Such a school, of course, could only result in giving the student a practical knowledge of the language he is studying. We speak thus well of the school because it seems to us an institution in every way worthy of the support...
Columbia still leads in the number of prizes taken at the inter-collegiate games. Since their institution in 1876, out of 260 prizes Columbia has won 69; Harvard is a close second with 57; Princeton has lost a tittle, and instead of being only two, is eleven behind; the University of Pennsylvania has increased her score by two, so that now she has 29 to her credit; Yale has gained some on the others, but is still a very poor fifth, having won only 18. The remaining 41 are distributed between ten colleges...
...continuous spurt, the two leaders struggling for first place, and Norton gamely cutting down the distance between himself and the men ahead of him. Hendee rushed over the finish in 2.54 1-2s., having shaken off Frazier, who came in a length and a half behind in 2.54 5-8s. Norton came in about thirty yards behind, having made a splendid fight for the lead...
...MILE TRICYCLE RACE.Hendee and C. F. Haven contested the tricycle race. Hendee took the lead at the start and held it to the finish, covering the mile in 3m. 44s., Haven coming in, about fifty yards behind, in 3m. 57 1-5s. The record in this event...
...place, passing Frazier and Rothe in splendid form. Rothe practically fell out of the race in the sixth lap. The second mile found Frazier ahead, followed by Norton, Millard and Rothe. The third mile was completed in the same order, though Rothe was now a lap and a quarter behind the leader. At the close of the fourth mile, Millard caught up with and passed Norton, holding second place by a length. The last lap of the last mile showed a splendid race between Norton and Millard. On the back stretch Norton gradually drew ahead, and came over the line...