Word: doors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...society has been organized in Germany whose object is to shorten hours of school work, and introduce and cultivate out-door games among the students of the higher schools...
...professionals don't think much of the race. The New York Times says of the crews and the race : "They are university men, and their friends have made the event fashionable, and added to this is the tremendous "spurt" which national taste has given to all kinds of out-door sports during the last quarter of a century. It was something like fifty years ago that boat-racing became a feature of university pastimes, and it was distinctly the introduction of Eton boys, who took with them to Oxford and Cambridge this especially popular sport of their youth. The first...
...exchange says that Madison University, at Hamilton, New York, will send out forty-eight book-agents next summer. Harvard sends them out every day; likewise peddlers, beggars and traders, - by the back door...
...indignation, we have still to reiterate our belief in its essential truth, although we are bound to admit that its statement is too broad to be applied, in a literal interpretation, to the case of Oberlin. And, as for the other sins the Review lays at our door-sectional prejudice, lack of candidness, disingenuousness, and what not-we utterly repudiate any intent of harboring such qualities. We have the highest appreciation for Western energy and intellectual vigor. More and more every year this ancient mother of learning is receiving into her veins new and fresh currents of the warm blood...
Three men have been on the track throughout the recess; the track is in excellent condition and everything is now arranged for active out-door training, preparatory for the spring meetings...