Word: hand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...original sources. I knew that was true, for I had myself been brought up in the science of chemistry; and one of the first rules of a conscientious student of a science is never to take a fact or a principle out of second-hand treatises, but to go to the original memoir of the discoverer of that fact or principle. Out of these two fundamental propositions, that law is a science, and that science is to be studied in its sources, there gradually grew, first, a new method of teaching law; and, secondly, a reconstruction of the curriculum...
...HAVEN, CONN., Feb. 8. - Michael C. Murphy, trainer of the Yale football eleven and the track athletic team today signed to train the track athletes of the New York Athletic Club the coming summer. Mr. Murphy will take the New York club's candidates in hand about May 20, after he has developed the Yale sprinters for the intercollegiate games. He has developed more crack sprinters than any other American trainer...
...Nation, on the other hand, while claiming to endorse President Eliot's attitude, seems really to have little in common with it. Through all of the excited utterances on football of which the the Nation has delivered itself of late, there has been a wilful disregard of facts, an unwillingness to admit anything good of the opposite side, that entirely shuts it out from any claim upon intelligent attention. Such phrases as "brute instincts which they have been sedulously cultivating," "animal gratifications," and the like, indicate an attitude of mind the opposite of candid or dignified. It may be that...
...professional degrees has been greatly increased during the past thirty years, and secondly that the periods of residence for these degrees have been materially lengthened. This lengthening of residence is particularly striking in the case of the two large professional schools - those of Law and Medicine. On the other hand, it should not be forgotten that the practice of admission to advanced standing in the College has lately increased; so that many degrees of Bachelor of Arts are now conferred upon persons who have not completed a residence of four years. This fact more than counterbalances the effect...
LACROSSE. - There will be daily practice in the Gymnasium from 2.30 to 4.30 o'clock. I shall be there from 3.30 to 4.30 to supervise the work personally. All men who wish to train for the team must be on hand at least three days in the week. There is need for few heavier and for some faster...