Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...professional coach. There are four candidates for pitcher; to each of these Mr. Clarkson devotes one half-hour three times weekly. He also has charge of the catchers. The rumor that he was to be assisted by Arthur Irwin has no foundation. Mr. Irwin is not needed, even if his presence here should be permitted by the Athletic Committee...
...Even if voidable, there are great obstacles and objections to the purchase and completion of the Panama canal on account of: (a) The expense; (b) the difficulties of construction; (c) the difficulties incident to its situation.- Nation, vol. 47, 487, Forum, vol. 4, 279, Forum, vol. 3, 412; Popular Science Monthly...
Under the head of "Wah! Wah! Wah! Harvard," is published in the last number of the Spectator, a piece of writing remarkable for its unprecedented character, in that it is a discourteous, ignorant, and even vulgar attack upon Harvard methods in athletics. Worse than the sneer at Harvard's ill-success of the last three years, is the implied accusation of insincerity on the part of the of the leaders in athletics. We do not wish further to characterize the article in question. Harvard men may read it for themselves...
...methods of study are quite different now from what they were between 1830 and 1840; and the great increase in the number of students brings a hundred changes. The Cambridge of that day was much more distant from Boston than is that of today; for a regular line, even of a poorly administered horse railway, which gives you for five cents a car once in five minutes, makes communication much easier than an hour in an omnibus which charged you a quarter of a dollar for each ride...
...verses "Venus at Twilight" are better than the average of contribution to the Monthly. They are rhythmical and even musical, and contain one or two very pretty turns of thought...