Word: earths
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which these tugs are now pulled out of doors, and it is certainly very much better practice for the out-door pulls than the old way of pulling on the gymnasium floor, but there is still an essential difference between pulling on cleats and pulling on the soft earth. Candidates for the team to be sent to the Polo Grounds can best be chosen from the class tug-of-war teams, but when the team chosen begins practice in the spring it should be borne in mind that they are training for a contest essentially different from those...
Referring to the morning chapel service as now held, the president said: "The service is impressive, edifying and interesting, and he who can attend it for years without sometimes being touched by it and moved to better living, must be a very insensible and earth-bound person. Twice within a few years the college faculty has represented to the corporation that attendance at prayers ought, in their judgment, to be made voluntary, but the corporation has declined to take action upon the subject. In the autumn of 1881 a motion made in the board of overseers that the statutes ought...
...Forensic, due March 1 : 1. Does the excellence of the artist depend upon the excellence of the man? 2. Comment upon the following sentence : "Omnes legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus." Cicero, pro Cluentio Section 53.) 3. What are the grounds for supposing that the interior of the earth is in a liquid state? 4. Jefferson as a statesman. 5. Is Mr. Henry James a true delineator of American character...
...correspondent of the Advertiser against the revoking of degrees by the corporation of Harvard has appeared. If, says this rejoinder, the degrees are voted subject to an expressly reserved power of revocation remaining in the corporation, or even deputed by the corporation to the faculty, no authority on earth could compel the delivery up to a riotous graduate of his diploma after the reserved power of revocation had been exercised. . . . The writer assumes that the college intends to vote degrees absolutely, and then to take them away, and it is on this assumption alone that his argument rests. If such...
...Earth shall skip away...