Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rather hard for the men to be greeted on their return to Cambridge with hardly a word of congratulation. The team did their best and this lack of recognition on the part of the men about the college cannot but be discouraging. The college has a chance to correct this little act of thoughtlessness by showing the team as they go off today how much it appreciates the work they have been doing, and how thoroughly its sympathies are with them in the races tomorrow...
...hear hearty cheering from a crowd of fellow students. A comparison of the records made in the games of the different colleges will show some thing of the outcome of the contests at New York, yet it is doubtful if some of the records made in other colleges are correct...
...foregone conclusion with everyone that two places in the 220 yards dash would go to Yale and in this one case, the foregone conclusion proved to be correct - Swayne and Allen winning first and second. For third place there was a very lively skirmish between Thompson and Hawes of Harvard, but the former was just a foot ahead of Hawes when the tape was reached and thus secured third place...
...very careful verbal explanation. The Scottish Geographical Magazine also contains very good maps which, mounted on cardboard make a very useful collection. Photographs, when they can be had, are an admirable means of illustration, for they add just what maps and diagrams fail to show, that is, a correct view of the thing itself. Typographical models are also very useful in this same way, but are usually very expensive...
...make the above statement in order to put the University in possession of the facts and our reasons, that they may form a correct opinion as to the justice of our position in the matter...