Word: fall
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...time of the higher Renaissance in Florence, he said, was the sixteenth century. This was a period in which all Italy was undergoing a great change. For the first time since the fall of Rome Italians were beginning to feel an interest in science and philosophy, to look to reason rather than to religion for explanation and for truth. Still the age was in a way a religious age, though the religion was of the intellect rather than of the heart. But while the character of the race was rising from an intellectual point of view it was deteriorating...
...change in the rules of the Weld Boat Club will be very generally approved. It has always seemed unnatural that a students, simply because he happened to join in the fall, was given longer use of the boat house privileges than another who joined in the spring. The reform will certainly be one more thing to commend the boat house to students...
...municipalities should furnish this employment; for (1) private attempts are inadequate, (2) municipalities could supply simple work better than individuals, (3) the burden, if any, would fall on the whole community...
There will be no more football matches between the military cadets of West Point and the naval cadets of Annapolis. Ever since the great game at Annapolis last fall, the secretary of the navy and the secretary of war have been considering the advisability of allowing these annual military-naval matches to continue, and, in order to help them in deciding the matter, reports were called for from the superintendents of the two academies. These reports were received recently and the superintendents agreed that, while football was a good thing for the cadets on their own grounds, trips to other...
Rule 14. If no fall has been obtained by either contestant after the expiration of the specified time, the referee may award the bout to the contestant having shown the best qualities, or who evidently has acted mostly upon the offensive; or the referee may, after allowing three minutes rest, order a supplementary bout of such duration as he may direct, not exceeding, however, six minutes...