Word: constant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is but one remedy. The tubs must be reset. The cost of taking out the bottom slabs, altering the sides a little and replacing the bottoms would be considerable, but it would be well worth the money expended. These tubs are in such constant demand in the afternoons that towards evening they are often far from pleasant to use. To remedy this evil would put the gymnasium in a state one degree nearer the perfection which it aims...
...Neither the building, nor the rooms inside, nor the exhibited objects, will make an especially imposing impression. But the strong point of this institution lies in the poculiar arrangement of the collection for the public, and in the strict separation of the large material for scientific investigations. By the constant development of science, by the improved accessibility of distant continents and islands, by the investigations of the depths of the ocean, collections of natural history will be enlarged almost to infinity; and it will be harder and harder to place them in our museums, and to preserve them. Everywhere buildings...
Messrs. Hamilton and Maxwell, the Yale bicycle racers, are in constant practice, and expect to lower their records during the coming season. They have made a mile in three minutes two seconds, and three minutes three seconds and a fraction respectively...
...over training and its dangerous results. Indeed, looking at the question from a sanitary point of view, it seems difficult to imagine any more dangerous practice, than to intrust numbers of young men animated by a spirit of strong rivalry, with the preparation for athletic contests, without the constant supervision of regular training masters, all of whose work could not possibly be performed by any director of physical culture, however able and energetic...
...itself deprived of the services of their present efficient coach, and our faculty would be unable to prevent it if the others made up their minds on the point. This only goes to show in what a careless manner very much of the new scheme was drawn up in. Constant bickerings and quarrels or more disastrous compromises are very likely to ensue as the work of the supervisory committee when any college or clique of colleges find it for their advantage to try and make headway for themselves by picking at the flaws in this set of resolutions...