Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Charles B. Richards, superintendent of the Southwark Iron Works at Philadelphia and formerly of colt's armory at Harttord, will become professor of dynamic engineering in the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, beginning in the spring...
...Faulty repairs: putting the diagonal support in such a way that any pressure on it tended to push the pile out from under the stringers. This could have been remedied by fastening the support rigidly to the pile by bolts or straps of iron, or by fastening the pile directly to the summer...
...says : "By repressive measures the evil has been at times restricted to its lowest limits, but has never been eradicated. Just the moment repression has ceased the brutal custom has sprung up with new features of brutality. While I do not favor threats to repress disorders or pledges iron cadets as a means of eradicating violations of the regulations. I am certain that the best means of maintaining discipline in any organization is the certainty of summary punishment, just, but severe, in all cases of intentional offense. West Point, it will be remembered is the happy institution, for which...
Harvard will endeavor to secure the abolition, or at least a modification, of the iron-clad rules that prevented it from playing with professional clubs or hiring a professional trainer last season, and made it an object of ridicule in the eyes of the other colleges, all of which played professional teams and had the services of professional coaches. Where the logic comes in adopt-such a course and yet retaining a professional gymnastic teacher and allowing a professional sparer to be in the gymnasium is difficult to comprehend. Yet the nine plays under professional rules and the games...
...real ! life is earnest ! etc.,"the Leaves resumes its account of the trip: "It did not seem exactly in keeping to go to Harvard immediately after this;" (referring to the quotation, we suppose,) "but that was a part of the plan, and so-we soon left the tall iron fence of the cemetery behind...