Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Teutons is said to have vaulted over six horses standing side by side; and another king, Olaf Tryggesson of Norway, according to an old chronicle of that country, was stronger and more nimble than any man in his dominions. He could climb up the rock Smalserhorn and fix his shield on the top of it; he could walk round the outside of a boat upon oars, while the men were rowing; he could play with three darts, alternately throwing them in the air, and always kept two of them up, while he held the third in one of his hands...
...Yale University boat crew is in a very bad fix at present. Stevenson has diptheretic sore throat and is unable to practice; Wilcox has gone home with bronchitis, and Capt. Rogers, Wells, and Gill are all suffering from very bad colds...
...would be at least bearable if we were allowed to cut the few recitations just before and just after the Christmas recess on our own responsibility, without other consequence than those of loosing the advantages to be gained by attending them. But when the college authorities see fit to fix important examinations for the day before the recess, some protest ought to be made. If we cut those examinations we endanger our standing for the year, and if we do not cut them, some of us cannot get home till after Christmas. The Christmas week and the New Year...
...clearly there shapes itself as we look, as the great outcome of the whole, a majestic being which we call the college, with human features and capacities, with eyes to smile or frown on us, with a heart to love us, with a will to rule us and to fix standards for our life...
...hundred and twenty-five students have applied to Mr. Hayes for instruction in elocution, and a strong effort has been made to arrange the classes at such times as would be convenient for the majority of men who desire to take the work. It has doubtless been impossible to fix upon any place of meeting that would suit the whole number of applicants, as the hours indicated by students have so conflicted that nearly a third of the men who care for the subject will be debarred from taking it on account of other work which comes at the same...