Word: broken
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...excitement has broken out at Yale over the choice of the junior editors of the Lit, who have been elected by the class but are not acceptable to the senior editors. The class has been asked to reconsider its action but refuses to do so, claiming that it has elected men who represent the best literary ability of the class. As both sides appear firm it is doubtful how the affair will...
...specimen of architecture, with its fine entrance porch covered with ivy. The interior, although fine, is not striking; the elaborately carved screen dividing it into two parts spoiling the symmetry of the aisles, while the stained glass windows are not particularly rich, most of the original glass having been broken by the Roundheads during the parliamentary wars. The organ is an excellent instrument and the Magdalen choir is one of the best in Oxford. A stone stairway leads to the Great Hall, which is well paneled with old oak and contains some good pictures by old masters, mostly portraits.-Opposite...
...professional ten mile walking record, 1 hour 17 minutes 532., was broken by Dennis A. Driscoll, at Lynn, last Wednesday, the distance being covered in 1 hour 16 minutes...
...trustees of Cornell University professor of physical culture and hygiene. It is probable that compulsory gymnastics will be required of the lower classes. It is stated that the engagement of Prof. P. McClellan, of New York City, who was appointed to the chair a year ago, has been broken because within a week after his appointment he accepted a challenge to a prize-fight for the light-weight championship of America, and the proceeding could not be tolerated by the trustees of the university...
...building is not covered on a mild day with a layer of melting slush or mud almost as deep. The remedy is simple and not expensive. With plank walks in some places and not in others a false sense of security from wet feet grows up, which is rudely broken as often as one makes his way libraryward...