Word: inch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Photographs of Alaskan scenery were next exhibited in great abundance, including some of Sika and of the various mining camps. The coast is a range of semi-submerged mountains, and the whole country is "set up on end." The precipitation at Sitka is very great, often reaching 100 inches, and it often rains there 2 5 days in the year. This weather is most favorable to the formation of glaciers, and the rest of the lecture was devoted to one of the most noticeable-the great Muirglacier. This is one mile across and 408 feet high where it reaches...
...football season is over, and Yale has won the championship, defeating Harvard in the game Thursday in New York. But let no one think that such a defeat brought disgrace with it. Our team is deserving of the highest honor for the gallant fight they made. Every inch of ground was stubbornly contested. Our eleven played a magnificent up-hill game from the start, and too much praise cannot be showered upon the men who represented our college. In fact we have made an up-hill fight the whole season. Our captain, beginning with comparatively new material, was obliged...
...running broad jump was contested by C. N. Cogswell, '88 (scratch), R. G. Leavitt, '89 (6 inches), R. S. Hale, '91 (12 inches), G. W. Wheelwright, '90 (12 inches), F. Mason, '91 (12 inches); J. Wolf, '90 (10 inches). The cup was given to Wolf, who cleared 18 ft. 1-2 inch. Wheelwright took second prize, with a jump of 18ft. 5 3-4 inches...
...abdomen falls in the 80 per cent. class, as do nearly all the breadths and leng**ths, the only exception being the trifling deficiency in the breadth of head, and the slight excess in the breadth of hips. In most persons the horizontal length is about onehalf of an inch greater than the height. This is undoubtedly due to the straightening of the spine and the relaxing of the cartilages while in a horizontal position. In this case the spine is comparatively straight, so that little difference is shown between the standing and horizontal length. The strength tests in this...
...essays must be written upon letter paper, of the quarto size, with a margin of not less than one inch at the top and bottom, and on each side. The sheets on which the essays are written must be securely stitched together...