Word: final
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...yards dash was run in six heats. In the trial heats, Moen, Bodley, Page and Mandell of Harvard got places, but failed to do so in the final heat, which was won by Walker, Yale '89, in 12 1-5 seconds; Estes, Manhattan Club, second...
...kick and Dean catching it fair held a place kick from which Fitzhugh kicked a goal. Time, ten minutes. Starting from the centre of the field, Morse made two runs by right tackle, gaining twenty yards, but lost the ball. After fumbles by the Harvard and Exeter backs, Harvard finally had the ball down on its 25-yard line but it went to Exeter on four downs. Cranston stopped the kick by the Exeter back and Exeter had the ball down on the 40-yards line, but it went to Harvard on a foul. A kick by Sears was fumbled...
...almost impossible to carry effective measures of reform into operation by means of party machinery. We agree with Mr. Story in many points, but we wish that he had put more stress upon the necessity of action within parties by private citizens. We believe that measures of final and permanent influence can best be handled through parties and not by means of spasmodic and local impulses. Sincere and honest private citizens can do their country more good by elevating the tone of parties than by manifesting a vacillating independence in politics. Mr. Storey practically admits this, but, accepting parties...
...Parker in his "Coming of Isolde" tells in a few words the final tragedy in the old romance of Sir Tristran and his fair mistress, the king's wife. The tale is skillfully told. The whole story of the two lives is faintly hinted at, although nothing but the closing chapter of that story is given. It would be difficult to find an unnecessary word in the last two pages. Mr. Dodge's essay, "What is a Sonnet?" is the best piece of work in this number of the Monthly. The writer examines the various forms in which the sonnet...
There is evidently a lack both of enthusiasm and funds at the headquarters of the rival democratic and republican state committees, as no final arrangements have been made by either party for a torchlight procession in Boston. It is no probable that either procession can take place before October...