Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Ready, a new stock of blue books having the labels stuck fast and in the proper place...
...have a chance at two first prizes, of which last year he was a sure winner. Finlay, Pennypacker and Dexter are showing up very well in putting the shot. Gibson of last year's team will make a good record in throwing the hammer. Davis, '91, is a very fast man for the bicycle race, and will stand a very good show of winning at Mott Haven. He needs training and experience in turning sharp corners of a track. In the tug-of-war we stand as good a chance as ever before; although we have lost Easton, Balch...
...gather as master and pupil. Harvard College has never departed altogether from the scholastic system upon which the institution was founded. In the maintenance of the classics, the lecture-system, tutors, examinations and recitations, as well as of religious exercises, and of moral restraints, this university has held fast things that are good. Here are the theological germs of the modern system of scholastic training. Here are tutors and pupils in the closest relations. Here are chamber conferences on private readings. Here, also, is the lecture system, with religious exercises, and even licensed 'cuts...
...last hare and hound run of the season took place yesterday afternoon. It was a fast hunt and was won by the hares, Dana and Cogswell, who started at 3.40 and arrived home at 4.25 after a long run through Longwood and around Chestnut Hill Reservoir. The straps broke which held Cogswell's scent bag in place and he did not run the whole course. The first hound in was Wells, 90, who arrived...
COMMETTEE.H. A. A.- There will be a hare and hound run this afternoon at 3.30. It is to be a "fast hunt," and as it will be the last run this year, it is hoped that many will take part. In a "fast hunt" the hounds are not required to keep together, but are allowed to go at any speed they choose from start to finish...