Word: intervale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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At ten minutes of five, '90 appeared, soon followed by '87 and then after an interval, by '88 and '89. At five minutes past, '90 flashed through the draw with a clipping stroke, and took her place amid wild cheers on the inside. '87, '88 and '89 followed in order...
The starter will say, "Gentlemen, are you ready," and getting no reply, and seeing no coxswain hold up his hand as a signal that the crew is not ready, the starter will fire a shot-gun, after an interval of from two to five seconds, as a signal to "Go...
Finally, we wish to call to mind the degeneration of the Harvard cheer. Everyone knows that the cheer is three times three, but few ever cheer three times three. It is always nine nowadays. Formerly the Harvard cheer was slow and dignified; now it is rapid and assertive. Before Harvard...
Arthur Boykin, a graduate, then spoke on "Africa in America." He emphasized what a former speaker had said of the sore need of competent teachers in the South, of the eagerness with which the negroes seize all opportunities offered them. The speaker gave a short sketch of his life, better...
In a university such as Harvard, where so much care is taken to perfect the sanitary arrangements both of the dormitories and lecture halls, the state of the atmosphere in some of the recitation rooms is something simply disgraceful. Some of the instructors seem forgetful of the fact that windows...