Word: falling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Comes through the air with a rippling fall...
...justly liable to change its tastes more frequently than the city, because of the fact that one quarter of its members change every year. Men are surprised because there were only twenty-eight entries this year to the Athletic Sports compared with sixty-three, which was the number last fall, and attribute this to a lack of spirit and a want of energy in the students. While the real reason is this: the Harvard man seeks amusement; he finds it one year in rowing or running, the next year he is tired of these and looks around for some...
...half-mile Holmes took the lead, making it in 2.59, and this order was kept until the end, the three quarters being got over in 4.26, and Holmes came in first on the last quarter, winning the race in 5.35, being 32 1/2 seconds longer than at the fall meeting...
...high-jump was, therefore, called instead, and Messrs. E. C. Hall, '76, and H. G. Danforth, '77, appeared in answer to the sound of the bell. The cup was won by Mr. Hall, who jumped 4 ft. 10 in., which was three inches less than the jump of last fall...
...human voice by means of induced vibrations in an electric current. The pitch and quality of the voice and the sounds of the vowels are transmitted perfectly, and part of the consonants are so distinct as to be easily recognizable. The Professor brought out an invention last fall by which writing might be transmitted in fac-simile characters by telegraph, and his present inventions, if completed, promise to revolutionize the system of telegraphy...