Word: containment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very interesting article on famous Harvard ball players of former years, and what they are doing in active life to-day, will appear in the next Boston Sunday Globe. The Sunday Globe will also contain the best report of tomorrow's Harvard-Yale game...
...Richard M. Hurd, Yale '88. The book gives a complete account of every contest in rowing, foot-ball, base-ball, track athletics and tennis which Yale has had with other colleges, and is a decided credit to the author. As a general thing, books on athletics contain a confusing tangle of dates, names, anecdotes and statistics; but Mr. Hurd has separated everything in such a systematic manner as make the book particularly attractive to the reader. The accounts of contests are concise and clear, and the tables of statistics, records and facts are the most comprehensive that have ever appeared...
...eight or ten feet above will be left open for light and ventilation. Each of the three lofts will be in charge of an attendant and will have no communication with the main library except through a single door. In addition to the books, the library will contain a large and valuable collection of coins, which the college now owns. A safe will be provided for their security. In the basement will be rooms for cataloguing, and accommodation for unpacking, binding and repairing. The building will be heated by furnace, and will have an engine and fan to provide thorough...
...ethics require active work and good fruits. The instructors for the divine order of life are not complete till they tell a man what to do. Dr. Hale said in his sermon that he had been tempted to compile a pocket testament-like Cromwell's Pocket Bible-which should contain a hundred texts arranged in this order: 1, a pure body; 2, what a man should be; 3, what he should do. These will be the lines followed in Chapel for the next three weeks...
...April number of the Quarterly Journal of Economics will contain the reply of President F. A. Walker to Professor McVane's criticisms on his "Theory of Business Profits"; an article on the "Philadelphia Ground Rent System," which has done so much to make that city a "city of homes," and a study of "United States Tariff History from 1830 to 1860," by Professor Taussig...