Word: distant
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Another good which our gymnasium has effected is the outside influence which it has exerted. Its reputation as a physical educator has spread far and near. Many persons interested in gymnastic sports have visited it with an eye to the establishment of like institutions in distant cities. Students at other colleges, hearing of its advantages, have forced their faculties to give attention to this matter. Better recreative facilities at their own colleges has been the result. Finally, the good habits and ideas learned by those who use it while here, spread abroad after graduation, influence many others in the right...
...Greek as a requirement for admission. The report made by the committee of the Board of Overseers upon this subject last spring, sometime previous to Mr. Adams' address, it will be remembered gave very strong indications of some probable move in this direction by the Board at no distant day. Whether as yet any decisive showing of strength by either the more conservative or the more decal side has yet been made we are uninformed. That the question will soon be considered is tolerably evident. What will be the final issue it would be hazardous to predict...
...says : "They now propose to play '87 at Providence on the Saturday after Thanks-giving, which will deprive many who expect to go home at that time of the pleasure of witnessing the game. They object to playing at Hartford on the ground that Providence is more nearly equi-distant from Yale and Harvard. This objection to Hartford seems rather unbecoming when it is remembered that Providence is over three-quarters of an hour nearer Boston than New Haven, and that for the last two years Yale has gone all the way to Cambridge." We know that the management...
Comes from the fountain's distant flow...
Shall gaze upon the distant view...