Word: closing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...each candidate for a degree must hear before presenting himself for examination. A record of these is kept in a book given to each student for this purpose, in which he enters the subjects of the lectures and to which the lecturer signs his name at the beginning and close of each semester by way of attestation. In this the extreme freedom of the system is seem, for many a student only attends a course twice, viz., when the book is signed. That is the student's affair and he must take the risk on the day of examination...
...reported at New Haven that at the close of the college year, Booth and Odell of the Yale nine will accept positions in a league club at salaries...
...fiske; '84, R. M. Appleton (anchor), R. Crane, J. B. Walker and C. W. Baker. In the second heat both the technical and law teams dropped even, but Easton again with bent knees ready to heave, He was unable to accomplish his purpose because the technical students crowded close to the teams and shouted so that the word to heave could not be heard. This cheering and laughing kept up for about a minute, but mean while Easton had to let out about six inches of rope as he was unable to hold it in his strained position. After this...
...first middleweight contest was that between Gordon Woodbury, '86, and Peirce, M. I. T., '86. The latter was considered a crack man by his fellow students, and warm work was expected. Peirce held off in the first round and but little was done till the close, when Woodbury got the measure of his man. In the second round Woodbury did some hard hitting, and punished his opponent very severely. This ended the round with Woodbury winner. In the other and final round Woodbury was matched against H. P Decker, and was again victor, winning a silver medal-the first prize...
President Seelye of Amherst says of compulsory exercise in the gymnasium: "By close statistics, carefully kept for twenty years, it appears that the health of an Amherst College Student is likely to grow better in each year of his college course. The average health of the sophomore class is better than that of the freshman, and of the junior better than that of the sophomore, and of the senior best of all. This average is shown to come from an improvement in the physical condition of the individual student, and not from the dropping out of the course of those...