Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...papers on Students' Athletic Management appeared in last Friday's New York Evening Post. This paper is devoted almost exclusively to the financial aspects of athletics here, and treats the matter so fully and concisely that a few extracts will be of interest to the college at large. After explaining the personnel and duties of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. commonly known as the Athletic committee, the writer goes on to explain the duties of the graduate treasurer, and the causes which led to the establishment of that office. After a short notice on the affairs...
...21st of November. The only reply which Mr. Ammerman has been fit to make is an open letter to the Philadelphia Press, which was copied by the New York Sun and appeared in its issue of November 27, 1889, under an article entitled "Will Harvard explain this...
...AMMERMAN.I cannot explain this for Harvard because Mr. Ammerman does not furnish me with the information asked for, but there are a few facts in the matter which I should like to have answered...
...this point Professor Trowbridge performed some interesting experiments, and showed some equally interesting photographs to prove the existence of waves of electricity and their oscillatory motion. He then made a most significant experiment in induction, and explained how a man killed by an electric wire was in reality struck by lightning. A dozen lectures would be necessary to explain all the aspects of those phenomena, and only a short description of them was attempted in last night's lecture...
...actual intentions of some of Princeton's players, however, the faculty may well be mistaken, since their information on the vital point in question from their very position is almost sure to be unreliable. However that may be, even they, we believe, would find it difficult to explain the coming of George and Cash at the eleventh hour on any other ground than the supposition that they entered college for the purpose of playing foot ball. Now that these men are registered and the present trouble has arisen it will no doubt behoove them for a time to improve their...