Word: holding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ratification of the proceedings of this, a special meeting of the Association, at its regular meeting in April. In the absence of the Committee to nominate officers of the Convention, Mr. Ferguson, Commodore of the Schuylkill Navy, was allowed the floor, and gave the Association a hearty invitation to hold their regatta for 1876 at Philadelphia, and to participate in the international University races which are contemplated in honor of the Centennial. A vote of thanks was given him for the kind offers made on behalf of the people of Philadelphia. The Committee on Nominations now reported for President...
...Convention of Boating-Men met, as you know, at Omaha last winter, and decided to hold the next regatta at Detroit, on July 25; moreover, Harvard was granted permission henceforth to choose material for her University crews from the association of colored waiters at Memorial Hall, in consideration of the fact that members of the Law School have always been excluded from rowing on the 'Varsity. As soon as the Convention adjourned our delegates hastened back to Cambridge, and at their recommendation the colored waiters were set to work, between meals, in the Gymnasium. At the spring races they entered...
...pawns moved but one square at a time. The ships could only command the third square from them in their diagonals, and, although they had the power of jumping intervening pieces, were of little value. It may be easily seen that there were only eight squares which they could hold. A four-sided die, marked from two to five, was used in playing, and was thrown before each move. If five turned, the king or pawn was played; if four, the elephant; if three, the knight; if two, the ship, or Rukh...
...lost all of his Freshmen mathematics, except a few leading definitions and one or two remarkable propositions. Yet these elements will be of great worth to him in after life, both in his own reading and study, and in the position which as an educated man he may often hold in the oversight of institutions of learning. The drilling of schoolboys in the elements makes deep furrows in the teacher's memory, so that the very things that had grown dim in his recollection after an interval of three or four years will now remain in vivid recollection as long...
FIAT LUX. Let the Alfred Student come, and we will reciprocate. We have with some scruples accepted its article on "Faith." Hope it is n't one of thirty-nine. Hold! When we wrote the above we had not noticed the report of the nefarious orgies of the "Alle-On-Alfire-nean Association," in whose diabolical proceedings an "Orophilian," an "Alleghanian," and an "Alfriedian" took part. Nevertheless we will exchange...