Word: corners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Copies of "The Winter's Tale" for English 2 may be obtained at Couples, Upham and Co.'s, corner of School and Washington streets...
Work has been begun at the armory in New Haven in preparation for the winter games which take place Friday and Saturday of this week. The track will contain sixteen laps to the mile, the finish being in the northeast corner of the building. A fifty-yards track has been laid out diagonally across the floor. A large number of seats have been reserved. It is expected in New Haven that Harvard will send a strong team to compete in these games...
...enter. The running high jump will have entries from Harvard, Technology and the Union and Association gymnasiums. Wason, of Tech, is said to be able to jump 5 ft. 6 in. Tickets for the games are now on sales at Music Hall. The medals are on exhibition at the corner of Winter and Washington streets, Boston. The probabilities are that the games will be of great interest to college men and amateur athletics generally...
...eight candidates seem to be rowing pretty well considering the constant changes which have been made in their make-up. The men complain considerably about the new rowing room. The machines, they say, are utterly bad. It is also disadvantageous for the two bow men to row around the corner, owing to the shortness of the room. Considering these hindrances, the time of the crew is fairly good. As a whole, the men are inclined to row short and are slow about getting their arms away...
...mind set in, and the "gray-eyed morning" of a new era smiled on the frowning night. Roussean, the great apostle of freedom, hurled the thunders of his fiery eloquence against the strongholds of mental despotism and traditional authority with terrible effect, and on their ruins he laid the corner stone of a new educational empire. Roussean's Emile was the great event of the last century prior to the French revolution. Its boldness of thought and language startled the whole world. While reading it, Kant, the sage of Koenigsberg, was so fascinated that, for the first time, he forgot...