Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...safely housed him in Otto's beer saloon. All this was done in six minutes, the best time on record. Then the crowd rushed back to the campus to fight for the possession of the bowl, which was soon forced over the fence into the middle of Thirty-fourth street, where the sophomores made a determined stand. Here neither side had the advantage, and in the scrimmage every contestant had his turn wallowing in the gutter and the filthy mud of the street...
...surprised one morning to find that his marks were low, and the other man's were high. The professor had evidently mixed up the names, and Jones remonstrated. An adjustment was promised; yet next month came the same mistake. For the third month the marks were correct; the fourth time brought around the same error...
...Baxter, '83, was one of the contestants in the heavyweight sparring. His opponent was Doherty, of Boston. The fighting was very close. Baxter, with his lame right hand, did some game work. The judges disagreed and a fourth round was fought. After it the decision was in favor of Doherty. This announcement caused much dissatisfaction among the majority of those present, who called loudly for Baxter. The cause given for the decision was that Baxter did not lead. On the other hand it may be said that whenever he approached his man the latter withdrew from the imaginary ring, choosing...
...Sargent will give the fourth of his talks on "Physical Training," this evening at Union Hall, 18 Boylston street. Subject, "The Uses of the Gymnasium...
...present moment and in Cambridge. If "sweetness and light," if the power of "seeing this as they really are" is at present the great need of England, how much more are these things lacking in America, in the land of practical ideas? Says Mr. Arnold in the fourth chapter of "Culture and Anarchy": "For more than two hundred years the main stream of man's advance has moved towards knowing himself and the world, seeing things as they are, spontaneity of consciousness (Hellenism); the main impulse of a great part, and that the strongest part, of our nation has been...