Word: feet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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SAMUEL P. WHITE,20 Thayer Hall.The Phillips Exeter Athletic Association held a preliminary tournament last Saturday. Jack '96 won the pole vault by a jump of nine feet...
...Smith of Dorchester addressed the St. Paul's Society last night. He took his subject from the story of Jesus washing His disciples' feet. He said: Some people have very peculiar ideas of humility. It seems to some that to be humble is constantly to disparage one's self, to deny any good quality or talent that one may possess; but this is rather dishonesty than humility...
...work that we may be called to do. A man who is willing to do anything necessary, who is not ashamed to turn his hand to the most menial tasks is humble. In the life of Christ we find perfect humility. He was willing to wash his disciples' feet because it was a courtesy which no one else would stoop to offer. Finally, Christ gave His life for us, for He did not feel that though He was perfect He was too good to sacrifice Himself for us. Perfect humility is a beautiful thing and well worth having...
...Chaillu then told shortly the story of the Norseman visitation to America with their huge vessels of sixty-two benches, sometimes four hundred and eighty feet in length...
...large space in the northeast corner of the room is devoted to hydraulic machinery. A stand-pipe five feet in diameter and twenty-two feet in height extends above the level of the third floor. This is for experimenting with the flow of water through apertures of different sizes. Water will be pumped into the pipe from a cistern and will flow through an aperture, provided with nozzels of various sizes, into a tank. At the other end of the tank there will be a weir, and the flow of water over this can be measured. Then the water will...