Word: faste
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Union tricycle championships, are all run in heats. In 1883 the first and second mile in the five mile tricycle championships had to run four heats, i. e., 20 miles during an afternoon. In one of these heats the record was broken and three out of the four were fast. There was no complaint that the best man didn't win. Staying power must be taken into account, and he is the best man who has combined most stay and most speed...
Many complaints are made by the section in German 3 that the instructor goes too fast for the men to do their work at all thoroughly...
...more often urged in favor of Greek in the debate now going on, are likely to prevail here at Harvard, where the contest in this country has now principally centred, seems indeed very doubtful. A follower of Mr. Matthew Arnold mitt be inclined to say that Harvard is fast going over to the Philistines. How that may be we do not know, since Philistines or Barbarians in this country are hard to define, and it would be very presumptuous to use such terms without sufficient warrant. Surely Charles Francis Adams, Jr., is not a Barbarian...
Rapid transit is fast coming to Boston, or at least to the line of communication where the crying need of it has been most sorely felt-the road from Cambridge into Boston. Residents of the university town must still jog along by horse cars three-quarters of an hour to get into the city. Various schemes of improvement have been suggested hitherto, but nothing has been effected beyond a new horse-car line in competition with the horse-car monopoly of the past thirty years. The elevated railroad project, which has received this week a large majority in the lower...
...gone in together and had occupied one part of the hall, there might have been some hearty cheering to encourage their representatives, but as it was, the only applause they could give was clapping, which, at best, is not very inspiring, The rousing "Rah! rah! rah!" seems to be fast getting into disuse among the students, and it seems unfortunate, to say the least. There has been hardly any genuine cheering in the yard this term, and there is danger that it may become a lost art among...