Word: ending
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...machine-room in the basement of the east end is one of the most important resources of the laboratory. It is here that the professors and advanced students materialize their ideas, and make their new apparatus. The work now being done is manifold. Professor Hall is at present busy in investigating how much steam is lost in the cylinder of an engine when in work. On account of the extreme heat thermometers cannot be used, and Professor Hall is therefore employing a very delicate electrical instrument. The relation of light to electricity and magnetism is being worked...
...Baseball Association is in its usual flourishing condition. At the end of the last college year, the association had a surplus of about $3650. Allowing $150 for outstanding debts, and retaining a surplus of $1500, the Baseball Association handed over to this committee the sum of $2000 "to be spent on athletics." Up to this time they have had some items of expense, but no income. The amount of their cash on hand...
...upon us and the winter's thaw is leaving the ground, we take this early opportunity of urging all to be careful not to walk on the edges of paths, which intersect the college yard. Last spring no such warning was given and the result was that towards the end of April the yard presented a rather wild appearance: corners were trodden down, edges were worn off, whole plots of grass had disappeared. The college authorities naturally saw themselves compelled to restore the yard to its usual well kept condition, but this fact should not be cause for unnecessary vandalism...
...spring for general excellence in kicking; the other, a large trophy, will remain the permanent property of the football association, and will bear the names of the best Princeton football kickers in each year since the introduction of the Rugby game. Upon it will hereafter be inscribed at the end of each season the name of the best kicker of the year. It is hoped that competition will develop some good men in this important department of the game. In the kicking contest in the Riverton games last Thursday, Ames, '90, took first prize...
...charge of the gymnasium at Andover. Particular stress is laid on the fact that weak men may become strong athletes, and as an example of the effect of athletic training upon men who were not naturally strong, two cases are cited. One of them is Wallace, Yale's end rush. who according to Mr. Dole was a slight, nervous fellow, hollow-chested and an inveterate smoker. At that time Mr. Dole was in charge of the gymnasium and could compel them to take exercise, and Wallace, becoming interested in his work, took up athletics in earnest and persevered until...