Word: chaotic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...here printed side by side on the same page to enable the student to compare them and note the general similarity. Such an innovation must make the path of the Latin student far smoother than it used to be. A certain amount of system is also introduced into the chaotic third declension, by grouping the consonant stems simply according to their behavior to the letters, and by presenting the i stems in progressive series, thus greatly simplifying the difficulties. Other equally original changes have been introduced, which add greatly to the value of the grammar as a text book...
...Haven, Oct. 1.-The Yale foot-ball team is at present in a very chaotic condition. The men have not got into training, and almost everybody is more or less under the weather with sore arms, legs and bodies. The candidates for the team, numbering some forty men, have been out to the field for practice every day for a week, but as yet there has been but little real playing. One thing has been established beyond a doubt, and that is that the Yale eleven this year will be inferior in several respects to that of last season...
...work, attendance, etc., of the half year are especially in a number of freshman courses, being carefully included in the returns, and the whole given out in terms of "excellent," "good," or "bad," as the case may be. While our marking system as a whole is in a somewhat chaotic state, and while our examinations are frequently valueless in the determination of work done, these attempts can be of only limited importance, but they show the spirit which is working for the final good, and should make us feel that we still have a place in the march of progress...
...formed of an iron upright and a small square of black walnut. This toad-stool desk gives no opportunity for comfort in writing, as it is not large enough to support the elbow and note-book at the same time, and an ordinarily bad chirography is thrown into a chaotic state thereby...
...class meeting was called for 7.30 last evening, but so great was the anxiety of the upper classes to assist the new comers in putting their class machinery in motion that Boylston Hall was packed to overflowing full fifteen minutes before the hour set. The meeting remained in a chaotic state for some minutes, but finally Mr. W. T. Kimball took the chair, and called for order. Order (?) having been obtained, the class proceeded to elect a president, and amid confusion unspeakable it was discovered that Mr. Perry T. Trafford, of Exeter, had been unanimously chosen for that office...