Word: consisting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...posters for the winter meetings of the Athletic Association were published yesterday, and give much general information concerning the events. The first meeting will be held on Saturday. March 10th, and will consist chiefly of contests in wrestling, sparring, putting the shot, and the tug-of-war between '90 and '91. At this meeting no ladies will be admitted, the last two days being reserved especially for them...
...with the same results as at the previous meeting, they appointed the following board, which differs only in one man from that which the class elected: J. C. Griggs, Gifford, Pinchot, H. A. Smith, L. S. Welch and H. W. Wells. Mr. Pinchot resigned, so that the board will consist of but four men. Of these Mr. Wells has been elected chairman, and Griggs, financial editor...
Professor Goodwin's new edition of his "Greek Moods and Tenses" will be almost double the size of the present volume and will consist of four hundred pages. There will be important alterations throughout the whole book, notably in the treatment of conditional sentences...
...they depend largely upon leisure and wealth the ideas of culture and wealth have come to be so nearly associated that some persons have doubted if they could be separated. But my words will be of little use unless they refute this common idea. If then it does not consist in fine things does knowledge fulfill all the requirements of culture? Many persons are perfect store-houses of condition whom we would not call cultured. The first incentive of knowledge is the desire to apply it, a char acteristic of the Anglo-saxon race, and while I am not disposed...
...eighteenth year, in order that he may enter the college of his choice, free from all conditions. On an average the American schoolboy at this age is earnest, persevering, and sincere in his work. His dissipations, if wholesome out-of-door exercises can be called by that name, consist in base-ball, foot-ball and skating in their season. If we look at the German boy in these same years we discover the same earnestness about the work and the same dogged determination to pass the examinations which close the American schoolboy's career, but his dissipations...