Word: good
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...would be a good thing for the University if some of her graduates adopted this as their profession, and if men who feel that they are fitted for such work would consider the question of taking it up seriously. To men who are interested in the question of athletic training it should recommend itself as an excellent vocation...
...Three defeats and one victory is Princeton's record after two years of intercollegiate debating. The record as it stands is such as to cause every man in the university who has at heart the good of Princeton a great deal of regret and serious thought. What the cause of the present state of affairs may be or whether or not there is any cause, we would not attempt to say without further deliberation and investigation, but we leave this question to the faculty, undergraduates, and alumni for solution. The fact forces itself disagreeably to our attention that Princeton...
...leading feature in the Crawford Shoe-it fits the average human foot as good as a shoe made to order...
Professor Trowbridge's experiments with the cathode rays at the Jefferson Physical Laboratory have shown that the quality of glass constituting the Crookes tubes has very little to do with the phenomena outside the tubes. A bulb that gives a blue fluorescence will produce as good cathode photographs as one that produces a yellow or green fluorescence. It is practically useless to endeavor to obtain photographs with tubes which are not exhausted to a high degree, perhaps one millionth of an atmosphere. When the anode throws a strong shadow of the cathode on the fluorescent walls of the tube...
...semi-finals and finish of the Newton indoor tennis tournament for the indoor championship of the United States were played Saturday afternoon and evening, and were the occasion of much good tennis. Both matches in the semifinals were well contested, E. Sheafe beating E. R. Marvin '99, 2-6, 6-5, 6-1, and R. C. Thomas '96, defeating A. Codman '96, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2. In the finals between Sheafe and Thomas, at one time it looked as if Sheafe would win in the three straight sets, but Thomas braced up in the third and fourth sets...