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Word: fives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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This year no one will allege that the Christmas Advocate neglects Christmas. It contains a Christmas leader, two Christmas poems, and five Christmas stories. Moreover, except for two or three editorial paragraphs and three short poems it contains nothing else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Briggs Reviews Xmas Advocate | 12/20/1907 | See Source »

...held on Saturday, June, 6, in Chicago for western athletes and in either New York, or Philadelphia for the east. Trials will be held in all events except the Marathon run and the ten-mile walk, for which the men will be picked by the committee. Three or five, men will be entered in each event, according to the resources available for expenses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Olympic Games in London in July | 12/18/1907 | See Source »

...Seventy-five years ago, the "dignity of history" necessitated the portrayal of Washington as a man of frigid formality; nowadays, popularizers seek to strip the Father of his Country and show that he possessed many of the worst attributes of erring hamanity. Mr. Owen Wister has down neither of these things. He has given us a life-like representation of Washington, setting forth the kindliness of his character and showing that his greatness lay not in lacking human passions, but in controlling them, except on those rare occasions when to have done so would have been more than human...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reviews of Owen Wister's Books | 12/18/1907 | See Source »

...meeting of the Corporation on November 11, T. Lyman '97 was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics for five years from September 1, 1907, and at a meeting on November 25, the following were elected members of the Administrative Board of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for 1907-08: J. H. Wright '94, Dean, W. M. Davis '69, E. L. Mark, G. T. Moore, H. W. Smyth, '78, G. L. Kittredge '82, H. Munsterberg, M. Bocher '88, E. F. Gay, J. A. Walz '95, G. P. Baxter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appointments by the Corporation | 12/14/1907 | See Source »

...University team has lost only two point winners in the field events, while Yale has lost five, and it should therefore be exceptionally strong in these events this spring. The University should win the high jump and the shot-put, the broad jump is undecided, and the pole-vault and hammer-throw will almost surely go to Yale. Of the five places won in the intercollegiate games last spring, four were won in the field events, and all but two by men still in College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACK WORK BEGINS TODAY | 12/11/1907 | See Source »

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