Word: kind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with some indifferent or poor men in their boat. Every effort should therefore be made to get the drones at work. Meanwhile, those men who are working must train all the harder, and learn from '90's crew what can be done with bad material by the hardest kind of work. The men now training...
...firm of Bailey, Banks and Biddell, of Philadelphia, has offered, through the Athletic Club of the Schuylkill Navy, a new kind of championship trophy to the Amateur Athletie Union of the United States, recently organized. It is a solid silver plaque with a background of plush, framed in carved oak. It has engraved on its surface 23 disks, which represent walking, throwing the shot, tennis, running, lacrosse, skating, fencing, rowing, swimming, bicycling, boxing, and other sports embraced in the union...
...rays of the spectrum. Now, however, the method has been extended so as to include the yellow and red rays, known as the all-day exposure method. Here the lecturer showed a photograph taken by Mr. Burbank, '89, of two sodium lines. It is the first one of the kind that has ever been produced. America has done more in the last fifty years to bring photography to perfection than any other country, although much has been accomplished by recent scientific investigation in England and France. The old spectra of stars were mere dots, but now Professor Pickering has been...
...striking comparisons of the Psalm were enlarged upon by the speaker. Evil is likened to a snare. As the hare speeding along its accustomed path is caught suddenly in the noose of the hunter, so human beings are assailed unawares through their desires and habits by temptations of every kind Again, evil is like a pestilence. Society is filled with moral corruption so that it is a miracle if any escape the disease. Finally, evil is like the arrow of human unmercifulness. Men send this arrow into the souls of their fellows, when they listen to false reports or magnify...
...library and will contain all the standard works. The general store-room for the apparatus is in the basement and is connected with the laboratories by a "lift" No pains have been spared in the work and the building when finished will be one of the best of its kind in the country...