Word: constant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Holy Cross, Powers caught well and McTighe batted hard. The large crowd which was present had come to see a victory for the home nine and did what they could to win it by their constant yelling and abuse of the umpire. The latter official was extremely poor but had the merit of being impartial...
...results obtained are published in a series of Annals, and now fill thirty quarto volumes. The preparation of these volumes occupies a large part of the force at the observatory in Cambridge. Besides this labor, a large amount of observation is done there, several instruments being kept in constant use. The largest of these are the fifteen-inch and six-inch equatorial telescopes, the eight-inch transit circle, the eleven-inch Draper photographic telescope, the eight-inch photographic telescope, and the meridian photometer...
...students remaining in town. The Glee Club and Nine had enjoyable trips South, notwithstanding the seven defeats which the latter received. It is difficult for the Nine to fully do itself justice on such trips, owing to the difficulty of keeping in good training during such constant travel...
...Oxonian." If an account of the University by a stranger has proved so acceptable, how much greater would be the interest in a course of lectures by some of the men who have themselves seen Harvard as she was in the old times, and have lived in constant and intimate association with her history and traditions. Such men, and there are plenty of them, could give us some account not only of historical occurrences, but of the college life itself...
...been only once interrupted, when in both 1892 and 1893 the average age was eighteen years and eleven months. This year again it has gone down to eighteen years and ten months. The fall is very slow but it is probably sure. With it may be expected a constant improvement in the mental ability of the student; for the lessening age will be significant not of haste in the preparatory, but of intelligent thoroughness in the elementary, school. In some future time the freshman seventeen years old will be better educated, a more advanced scholar, than he of nineteen...