Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...handicap instead of "scratch," as usual. Slight objection has been raised, we understand, in some quarters against the new method. The benefits, however, of offering a strong inducement for men to enter led the executive committee to decide that the change in conducting the tournament was best. They will fix the handicaps as carefully as possible, taking into account the work done by the contestants in previous tournaments, and by the principal players in the tennis league this spring. Such a course, they feel sure, will go far towards the development of new players...
...rowed an excellent race and it is not to be wondered that their classmates were happy last night. The race was not very satisfactory however, to any of the other classes. The complications into which the other crews got were very unfortunate. It would be difficult to fix the fault, and perhaps it is better not to try as it will not help matters. To the whole University the most gratifying feature of the race was the excellent work of the freshman crew. Notwithstanding a discouraging start the crew kept to their work pluckily, and at the finish made...
...organizations that our faculty does to ours is most surprising, Permit us to inform you that our faculty interferes with our games only so far as they interfere with college exercises. It does not dictate to us as to what college we shall play. It does not attempt to fix our dates nor even to cancel agreements because perchance our nine may not have reached the proper stage of preparation for games...
...consists is fragmentary. The writing, as is usual in such cases, is on the reverse of the papyrus, which originally held certain mercantile accounts dated 79 A. D. Allowing, therefore, reasonable time for these accounts to lose their importance before the other side would be used, we may fix the date of this text at the end of the first century...
...understand when he proceeded to investigate all the world of experience in the light of this theory. Towards 1769 signs of a revolution in Kant's mode of thinking were visible. He became convinced that space and time did not exist. Therefore all the outward world, which we fix in space and time, must be simply phenonenon, and outside of ourselves. In this fact is found a limit to knowledge...