Word: explains
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...explain : No honor course in college requires a man to devote more than six full courses to that study. Besides this he has to pass a special examination, which to a man that has done faithful work in his courses is but little difficulty. A man who gets honors in any subject, receives a magna cum laude degree practically for eighteen hours work. But for a man to get this degree in regular course he must attain a mark of eighty-five per cent. in his last three years, i. e., for 42 hours a week, a mark that would...
...showed a lamentable weakness of head or management, failing to play well together or support one another effectively. Individually they played very well, but there was much inexperience and ignorance of the rules of the game apparent. The ball was quite slippery and hard to handle, which may explain the muffing of some of the tends, yet the Yales rarely failed to be sure of the ball. Austin, by his brilliant rushing easily excelled for both sides, and the University eleven would have done well by giving him a place on their team. Adams did excellent rushing and tackling...
...Yale News.We suppose there is a "grind" in the above; will the News please explain its joke...
...Sargent of Harvard. Having had charge of the department of forestry statistics in the last census, Prof. Sargent has had unequalled opportunities for the study of this subject in connection with his work in preparing and issuing his valuable "Forestry Bulletins." In that work he advances several reasons to explain the rapid disappearance of the pine forests of this country. At no time, however, has he, I believe, ever considered the explanation suggested by our subject - the alarming growth and extent of the use of wooden toothpicks in this country, requiring for their manufacture, as they do, so large...
...extraordinary memorial to the Columbia Boat Club which appeared yesterday morning, signed by certain Harvard alumni, is to us inexplicable and astounding. The only conjecture that can be made to explain its appearance and its import is that its framers and signers are ignorant of or have utterly ignored the statements recently advanced by the Harvard Boat Club, in explanation of the conduct of the crew. The students of Harvard have read the statements of Columbia and of their own crew; from these they are satisfied that without question the Harvard crew can not be justly accused of dishonorable conduct...