Word: closing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game. Princeton also scored one run on a bad error by shortstop, who, getting his finger knocked off, and stopping to pick it up before throwing, overthrew, and the man came around. In the seventh inning the umpire earned three curses on strikes, balls and a close decision at second. In the twenty-ninth inning Princeton again tallied, the datter hitting the ball clean into the third-base's stomach, and, the Yales not having the presence of mind to call lost ball, before they could get it out the man scored. This being the last inning, Princeton was declared...
Those who sit near the entrance at the lower end of Memorial Hall, are made exceedingly uncomfortable by the cold draught whenever the door is opened. Could not one large screen be placed close to the door and directly in front of it, on each side of which one could enter. The present small screens are of no use whatever...
...classify books on your shelves by the colors of the bindings, or by the sizes of the books themselves. Put the works of an author together, so far as possible, however incongruous their sizes may be. And try to keep books on the same and kindred subjects as close together as may be convenient...
...which is maintained in it. At no time, it is stated, has the institution been in better condition and freer from vice or disorder. The college has a history dating back half a century, and is noted as having been the only college in the South which did not close its doors during the civil war. It is the successor of Queen's College, which was conducted before the American Revolution...
...attainments in his different studies. Another custom is that the professor, and not the students, is to do the work. At a recitation the professor, who, by the way, always stands, reads or explains the next lesson, and at the following recitation the students review it. If, at the close of a term, the students are found deficient in some study the fault is considered the professor's, not their's, and yet the professors are on the best of terms with the students whom they treat as gentlemen and equals. It is a very common occurrence for a student...