Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...football men have well deserved cups-far better than they ask for-and we hope the class of Ninety-two is too fair-minded and generous not to respond to their request heartily and freely...
...sense and good advice, and to the people of that age it is no wonder that they appeared to come direct from a deity. It was not only from the near-lying states of Greece that the people came to consult the oracle at Delphi, but from states situated far away. There came to the shrine people in every rank of life. Kings sent their envoys with rich presents to seek aid from the oracle, and states sent their ambassadors to ask aid in the direction of public affairs. The temple could not but become immensely wealthy with such...
...entire tract embraces about 7000 acres in the San Jose valley, about thirty miles from San Francisco, overlooking the head of the bay and not far from Menlo Park, the country home of several prominent Californians. It occupies the rolling slopes of the low hills of one of the interior coast ranges. In addition to the immediate surroundings of the university, the plan embraces an arboretum in which it is proposed to gather the arboreal vegetation of California and of other regions of the world with similar climates, and an artificially planned forest of several acres which will serve...
...central buildings of the university, now partly under construction after designs by the Boston architects, Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, the successors of Richardson, are to stand in the center of the broad plain occupying the greater part of the tract. The purpose of the plan, so far as represented, is: first, to provide for convenient and economical use, by large numbers, of the means of research and instruction to be offered in the central buildings; second, to provide in the arrangements devised for this purpose an outward character, suitable to the climate of the locality that will serve to foster...
...candidates for the freshman tug-of-war team was held in the trophy room of the gymnasium last evening. Only eleven men presented themselves, and of these only three have ever pulled on a tug-of-war team. The outlook at present, therefore, for a good team is far from encouraging. It shows an utter lack of spirit and enthusiasm on the part of the freshmen when out of a class of three hundred only eleven men are willing to try for positions on the team. The men trying for the crew are not allowed...