Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Those interested in athletics will find Mr. Tyler's article specially entertaining. He gives a clear and very readable account of the revival of foot-ball at Harvard, after it had been under ban for nearly ten years...
...Hamlen, '87 has been elected captain of the Wesleyan foot-ball team for the coming year...
...alcohol over periods of twelve days each, in the heart's action. The average number of beats under the alcoholic diet was 13 per cent. more than under the water diet. This was an expenditure of extra energy on the alcohol days sufficient to raise 15.8 tons one foot. After all trace of alcohol had disappeared from the system in the subject of this experiment, the action of the heart was found to be much feebler than usual. A fatty heart is one which is over laid with masses of fat as the external muscles...
...that is so powerful in America to-day is not the one on which a philosophy that is destined to permeate all the peoples of the earth can be built. America has yet to appreciate the fact that it has much to learn, and is, therefore, at the very foot of the ladder, and with no prospect of rising until it feels that its wonderful growth in wealth and power, although unexampled, is still not the only requisite to perfection...
...professorship in the "science and art of teaching" at Cornell, the adoption of the "group system" at Johns Hopkins, the scheme of making a university at Princeton, the election of a new president and the building of a gymnasium at Yale, and the increased interest in foot-ball, the Conference Committee and the literary improvements at Harvard are the principal subjects discussed in these letters...