Word: falled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gymnasium. At the age of fifteen, the regular course of instruction in athletics was begun, which fitted the youth to participate in the great games, "field meetings" we would call them now, held every year at Athens. Higher honors were conferred on the victors in these games than fall to the lucky prizeman at Oxford or Cambridge...
Hurd has been appointed captain of the Freshman tug-of-war team in place of Crocker who is incapacitated by his illness of last fall...
...here, too, are placed anthropology and ethnology. The scope of (7) History and geography (including politics and general biography) is sufficiently indicated by its title, but it should be explained that biographies of artists should be looked for under fine arts, of astronomers under science, etc.; genealogios and heraldry fall here, as well as legislation and constitutional and international law. Under (8) Law and sociology appear statistics, commerce, finance, political economy, jurisprudence, reforms, charities, education, public morality and hygiene, and public works, together with manners and customs, sports and games. (9) Philology embraces all departments, not only of language...
...both the number, and the quality of the courts. Tennis is such a popular game that nearly everyone is interested in the success of the association, and few indeed can afford to refuse their subscriptions. With the supremacy of foot ball, tennis will probably gain many supporters in the fall, and unless something were done to remedy the existing evil, complaints next year would be many and frequent. Another inducement is the hope that if we possess some excellent courts, the inter-collegiate tennis tournament will very probably be played here next year. On account of these various reasons...
...fall of 1879 that the doors of the Harvard Annex were for the first time thrown open to the young ladies of America. The wish, so long cherished by mothers and fathers, of giving their daughters the same advantages in the way of instruction as were enjoyed by their sons at the foremost institution of learning on the continent, was at last realized. An attempt has been made to induce the Corporation of Harvard University to allow the entrance of young ladies on the same terms with young men; but the conservative body of august men was suffering from...