Word: fixedness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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We publish in our columns this morning the official rules adopted by the meeting at Springfield to govern the Harvard-Yale race. These rules provide that the race between the two universities shall be a fixed annual event, thus doing away with the necessity of annual challenges. It is also...
The rules governing the actual rowing of the race seem to provide for all possible contingencies. Either boat is to be disqualified if at any point during the race it should be nearer than ten feet or farther than ninety feet from the central line of buoys. It is further...
The starting line shall be moved down from the present starting line the distance of sixty (60) feet toward the finish line, and shall be at right angles to the central line of buoys. Each boat shall be provided with a metal staff or rod eighteen (18) inches high, carrying...
The number of persons drowned by the disaster at the diamond mines is definitely fixed at seventy-four.
I will not leave this subject without calling attention to the appropriateness of meeting the expense for repairs by a fixed monthly assessment, and the crockery expense, which bears a much more direct relation to the number of boarders, by an assessment per capita. The fund accruing from the two...