Word: grades
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bicycle track is soon to be laid in Philadelphia. The track will be circular, nine laps to the mile, and will be made of cinders and cement, with a grade of one foot from the centre to the outer circumference, and will be twenty feet in width. Electric lights are to be placed around the track. During June there is to be a tournament and series of races held there...
...address before the Wisconsin State Teachers' Association, on "Education as a University Study," said: "There can be no collision between a normal school and a university chair of education, for a university cannot compete with a secondary school. The state needs many more teachers of a higher grade of scholarship than a normal school can supply. These teachers must come from the college or from the university...
...ruling upon questions of jurisdiction and the validity of decisions. Penalties are to be awarded by the president. A verdict of fact and a verdict of opinion are to be rendered. The former verdict must be unanimous, while the latter is to be determined by a majority vote. Four grades of offences are to be regarded in affixing penalties, deliberate falsehood being properly set down as an offence of the first magnitude. The jury is to give its judgment, based upon the verdict of fact. As to the grade of lawbreaking, if such an act has been committed. The president...
...athletic field at Yale: Area, hillside and meadow, 8.4 acres; cricket field, 3.67; track and vicinity, 4.68; baseball field, 10; roads and cottage sites, 2.25. Total area, 29 acres. Distance from home plate to nearest obstruction on principal ball field, 420ft.; same, second field, 350ft. Cricket field, 400ft. square. Grade of ball field, 3 1-4 in. to 100ft. Length of driveway, 4,000ft. Length straightaway on running track, 372.5ft.; radius inside curve, 90ft.; width of homestretch, 20ft.; width of rest of track, 15ft.; depth of material, 15in., in six layers, and beaded inside and outside with tarred spruce...
...building of the Carr School of Applied Science, situated west of the Adelbert College, Cleveland, was recently run into by a train of 12 cars backing on a down grade, demolishing the L of the building and three cars. It will cost the railroad company $8000 to repair the damage...